Photography: A Subjective Representation of Reality

After all, a camera is merely a tool that was made to mimic the human eye. Although it can perfectly recreate an image according to the law of perspective, it does not capture the reality “as seen” or “as thought” like Cezanne and Magritte tried to portray. Digital modification is needed to express the artist’s subjective perception. The image modified by the artist is an intended representation using the camera as a tool—as a brush to a painter—and the artist’s subjective reality.

In-betweenness

In-betweenness: Limbo

2015, 01:22 min, Digital colour video

Neo lost in between the Matrix and the real world in the movie “Matrix” seemed just like ourselves in this world. The reason why our life is so restless might be because we consider our world as an intervening space. We fear and wonder where we are from, and where we are going to. We don’t accept the present as itself, but make it in-between some space.

In-betweenness: Data

2015, 01:41 min, Digital colour video

Data entrapped in nonplace called memory is increasing as saving and compressing technology develops. Such data are not born to exist in memory. They are our traces that are stuck and abandoned in a passage point. This video work is an imagination that our world is actually a forlorn data. It images the world with some missed data, and a man who realizes the truth and falls into despair.

Time of Ourselves

Viewing from a different standpoint, we might be beings floating around with our separate time. Sijong Kim met people, laying a thirty-minute sandglass, asking them to say stop when they think thirty minutes have passed by. The amount of left sand was put in transparent packs. This work was progressed with an imagining those pieces of lost time might be stored somewhere.