작업 속 인물들은 특정한 날 런던의 한 거리를 걸으며 찍은 인물들의 얼굴이거나, 혹은 인터넷에서 ‘ People+London’이라는 키워드로 찾은 인물들이다.
설치 형식 때문에 관객은 바닥에 놓인 인물들을 처음에는 하나의 군중으로 이해할 것이다.
주어진 동선에 따라 돌다보면 이러한 특성때문에 개개의 인물들이 눈에 들어오게 되고,
There
are some groups of people. How do you consider the people in the group? As
a part of a group or individual? Most people would recognize the individuals
in the group as a part of that. And people would regard they know them.
However, individuals have their own characters and stories. And we should
consider and respect that. This work starts from this point.
I
use the portrait images, which are taken a photo on a certain day in London, or
found in the Internet with the keywords ‘People+London’.
At
first, the viewers would consider the people in the black frames as a crowd,
because of the way of installation. Due to the character of the white ink on
glasses, portrait images change to positive or negative images depending on
where viewers standing. Thus, by walking around that, the viewers
are able to start watching the individuals and focus on them.
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'40 Martyrs', screen print on glass, acrylic on MDF, 32x32(cm) each, dimensions variable, 2012
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