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An Artist Who Thinks about Time
Artist Kwon Eun-kyong is one of many who lives and works while feeling
such an acceleration of time. The time she experienced has already slipped
by at extremely high speed. An indescribable void has swept her up in the Day and Night, Capturing the Stream of Time
middle of her life and since then she has begun thinking about time serious- Setting aside the above comments on time, subdued light can be sensed in
ly. The concept of time she defined at that point entailed not only getting her images in a way that seems as if someone is flashing a light on them.
old but also extinguishing life. Her concept of time completely changed The bright parts of her scenes cause the darker sections to stand out by
following a special journey that enabled her to have an unexpected experi- relatively generating darkness. Kwon enables viewers to perceive day and
ence. Her perception underwent a radical transformation from extinction night more intensely through a proper contrast between brightness and
to “existence.” Time has always been the object of her thinking and the darkness. In doing so, she intends to capture vivid scenes of day and night
subject of her work both in her previous works denoting time as a means in reference to brightness and darkness. To the artist, day and night is the
or evanishment and extinction and her recent works in which she gazes at beginning and end of a day as well as a unit through which a long period of
time from a different viewpoint. She has featured the temporality she has time is amassed. In this respect, light in contrast with darkness is employed
experienced in both her previous and recent works. One of her pieces, to represent temporality and the passing of time. The time of day coexists
And, See Photos, still leads her to think about time. with that of the night in the time and space she has recreated.

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