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장남의 별아파트 The Star Apartment of the Eldest Son 180x144.5cm c-print 2013
big to me. I may be overly obsessive. (laughs). To me, meeting people
isn't the easy thing to do. I like it though, but I find it difficult to become
the other person's heart to maintain the relationship. The process of
creating work is relatively easy, since getting the empathy from the
relationship is very hard. The relationship is nothing short of intuitive,
but to express that person in my work is so clearly defined that I enjoy
this process. I am glad to be able to bring all the people I have met
through my work during my time in the studio alone. However, on the
other hand, it is sad because it is only so within the workshop. Actually,
not so.
I understand that your work sizes in your previous exhibitions are
up to 2 meters maximum. What made you increase the size up
to 3 meters for the works in your exhibition <The Landscape of
Others>?
While my previous work clearly depicted the main character the main
focus of episodes, in contrary, you could think that my current work
is rather flat. You may consider It is merely a landscape. However, the
scenery has a variety of narrative elements. I intended to make my work
that would make people pay more attention to find the details and
think why the artist expressed these details. So, at this time, I showed
a bigger size of work. The details that were hidden in the work are not
visible from the small size image, such as the ones on the web or in the
catalog, actually appear one by one in the exhibition space. 3 meters
work was created with the intent of not showing much unless you
actually looked at the work in a very close distance. of IT, nor the field reminds us of the professors. However, despite the
Are there certain kind of intentions in communicating with the fact that they were made with subjective thoughts, the two professors
gallery, also? who visited the exhibition chose the <Professor's Wind Field> as their
In the same way as mentioned above, when the gallery sees the works favorite work, and a visitor who majored IT chose the <IT Professionals
from afar or indirectly, they can not see anything, but they can see as Network>. What I felt here was that the abstract scenes that I guessed
much as they try to see the works and spend more time in detail. But I only from my experience would not fade with my fantasies or
thought it represented a similar principle to the relationship with people. dreams but could become a medium of communication. Of course,
It is quite different to know and communicate directly with knowing the interpretation is a portion of the audience, so you will feel different
person indirectly. I wanted the relationship between the viewer and the depending on your own experience, but I think you will understand
work and the relationship between people and people to work alike. my work if you are in the process of overcoming the injury and going
It is a metaphor of human relations by the relationship between works thru a similar experience of mine. In fact, quite a lot of people read the
and the gallery. feelings I had while I was doing this work without any explanation. It is
Can you tell me if you had a memorable experience in the power of the image that makes you confess going thru the same
communication in <The Landscape of Others> exhibition? experiences and share that story through an image. Maybe, it is all
My work is thoroughly subjective. Neither the water plant reminds you about this work to empathize with each other.
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