VR컨티뉴

People with unrealistic figures with splendid features and white-toned skin that are at an ideal proportion and likely to exist only in works of classicist art, luxuries that can't even be seen on the salaries of ordinary people, sports cars with elegant curves, large, luxurious houses that compare to the castles of feudal lords.
Few people would disagree that we are living in an era of image excess today. This is because about 1.2 billion images a day are created by smartphones, and the number of photos uploaded for a single day on one platform alone reaches 100 million. Can I give the meaning of existence in the position I stand for these images, which are created, reproduced, spread, and idolized indefinitely, and most people just look at with envy, admiration, jealousy? The question naturally follows.

At least from an empirical point of view, the truth is not true until it is confirmed directly. Questions about the authenticity of idol-like images that seem unlikely to exist in the world provided an inspiration to me, who had been surviving creative activities in such a difficult situation. This is because sneakers, which are difficult to even check the real thing, let alone buy them even with a few months' salary of an ordinary office worker, are just a mirage from the perspective of the absolute majority. They are fiction until the moment they were not checked in person. This is because realistic backgrounds can be concealed by the intervention of image producers, such as the angle of the camera, the situation of the lighting, and the composition to emphasize. Based on this basis, it is thought that the idolized images we see may be merely distorted shadows in virtual space reflecting truth. In addition, credit card addiction, teenagers looking for luxury goods, Kapoor, and cyber sex crimes, which are serious social problems that have recently emerged, all occurred at the moment when the illusion of this idolized image became a real object.

About half a century ago, Paik Nam-june intentionally manipulated the TV's image using the magnetic field of a magnet to distort the image output from the TV. They tried to attack and overthrow idols in the virtual world with physical interference. However, as if to laugh at these pioneering artist attacks, the virtual world is still expanding its power indefinitely and exerting great influence on reality by using territory in near-infinity. However, as Paik Nam-jun showed, images that seem to be forever solid in an instant have a very fragile and soft side. Even a little physical interference with the output system, a small mistake in the command, and a minor loophole in the system, the image begins to destroy and collapse, as if the output is cut into the shredder. The fragile and fragile nature of the image that we believe so hard that we cannot tell from reality is clearly revealed. And there is a certain beauty behind this fragility.

My work is to capture the process of revealing muscles and blood vessels that sit just underneath the leather of a mirage-like image. The numerous formative combinations that can be represented using disordered horizontal lines, bar code-shaped patterns, and irregular arrangements of geometric figures in colors derived from images are thought to harbor as endless possibilities as that of abstraction.