Fantasia

Dates

15 March - 16 Apri 2023


Venue

Hampyeong Museum of Art

Jeollabuk-do


Artists

Koo Seong-youn

Lee Jeong-lok

Lim Anna

Han Sung-pil


Support

Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism

Korea Culture and Arts Centers Association

Korea Sports Promotion Foundation


<FANTASIA> consists of works by artists Koo Seong-youn, Lee Jeong-lok, Lim Anna, and Han Sung-pil, who showcase a virtual world through photography. Generally, the essence of photography is to faithfully reproduce real landscapes and objects. By twisting this characteristic of photography, the artists add images to real landscapes or combine different images to create a virtual world. Furthermore, to express their intentions more concretely, they create props and photograph staged scenes to depict situations that cannot be seen in reality.

The reasons for implementing these various virtual worlds in their works differ for each artist. Some may satirize distorted human desires and the grim realities of war, while others pose questions about the origins of life. What these works aim for may be, perhaps, a diagnosis of the real world through a virtual world and a desire to live a more humane reality. I wonder how the virtual images presented in this exhibition can affect real life.


Lee Tae-woo (Director of Hampyeong Museum of Art)


<FANTASIA>는 사진을 통해 가상의 세계를 보여주는 구성연, 이정록, 임안나, 한성필 작가의 작품으로 구성된다. 일반적으로 사진의 본질은 현실의 풍경과 사물을 그대로 재현하는 것이다. 이런 사진의 특성을 비틀어서 작가들은 현실의 풍경에 이미지를 더하거나 서로 다른 이미지를 결합하여 가상의 세계를 구현하고 있다. 더 나아가 본인들의 의지를 더 구체적으로 들어내기 위해 소품을 만들고 연출한 장면을 찍어서 현실에서 볼 수 없는 상황을 보여준다. 이러한 다양한 가상 세계를 작품으로 구현하는 이유는 작가마다 다르다. 인간의 어긋난 욕망과 전쟁과 같은 참담한 현실 세계를 풍자하거나 생명의 근원에 관한 질문을 던지기도 한다. 이러한 작품이 지향하는 것은 어쩌면, 가상의 세계를 통해 현실의 세계를 진단하고 더욱더 인간다운 현실을 살아가고픈 바램일 수도 있다고 생각된다. 이번 전시를 통해 보여지는 가상의 이미지가 현실의 삶에 어떤 영향을 줄 수 있을까 궁금하다.


이태우 (함평군립미술관장)




It consists of works that create a fantastical fictional world that does not exist in reality through real objects and subjects.
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Still life is small in scale and charming, while landscapes are relatively larger in scale and spectacular. If still life photography is realized through a passive "staging," landscape photography is realized through an active "installation."


Lee Jun-hee (Adjunct Professor at Konkuk University)




Highlighted Works


Artists

 

Portrait of Koo Seong-youn, © Koo Seong-youn

 

Portrait of Koo Seong-youn, © Koo Seong-youn

Koo Seong-youn


Koo Seong-youn explores the attributes of modern society through still life photography that reconfigures everyday materials. The artist has recreated a magnificent peony using the sweetest candy in the world. By utilizing the characteristic of candy melting and disappearing, she captures the moment of the most extravagant candy flower in photographs. The ecstasy created by the candy flower is fleeting, and ultimately, material things change and vanish. This aligns with the Buddhist concept of 'impermanence' (無常), which states that nothing in the world is fixed or unchanging. Ultimately, it signifies that rather than holding onto the secular desire for a splendid tomorrow, one should be devoted to living in the present.

Lee Jeong-lok


Lee Jeong-lok represents the lives that have vanished and reminds us of the greatness of life. His work begins with the question of what the origin of being is. It is a vast and reckless question, yet it is fundamental to all the problems humanity faces. The artist finds the source of life in light. This light does not simply refer to physical rays; it serves as a band of time that shows the history of humanity, reviving the existence of beings that have disappeared. The mystical atmosphere created through the light of life in the natural or historical spaces we inhabit evokes a sense of awe for the creatures that once existed there.

 

Portrait of Lee Jeong-lok, © Lee Jeong-lok

 

Portrait of Lee Jeong-lok, © Lee Jeong-lok

 

Portrait of Lim Anna, © Lim Anna

 

Portrait of Lim Anna, © Lim Anna

Lim Anna


Lim Anna continuously addresses the subject of the most tragic war in the world. Since 2011, she has been working on the theme of soldiers. She photographs various military facilities such as fighter jets and warships, and also documents models related to the military. Additionally, she creates sculptures or reconstructs existing sculptures to produce and visualize a fairy-tale-like war landscape. <Frozen Object> features a virtual war memorial created within a white cube. Covered with white fabric, it satirically expresses the tendency to artifact and memorialize the scars of war. The artist narrates war through the contradictory characteristics of fact and fiction, seriousness and lightness, conveying a message aimed at healing humanity from the wounds of tragedy.

Han Sung-pil


Han Sung-pil has continued his exploration of the meaning of replicated virtual images by re-photographing the images in reality. The boundary between reality and the virtual, particularly the meanings of real and fake, is addressed by Jean Baudrillard, who argues that humans live in a virtual world and have lost the ability to distinguish between the real and the fake. In other words, he discusses the concept of 'simulacra,' where the logic of imitation operates in the absence of an original. The artist narrates the situation in which virtual signs replace reality and the relationship between reality and the virtual becomes ambiguous through <Facade> in urban. He has typologically recorded the large replicated images or videos displayed on construction site barriers, resembling public art.

 

Portrait of Han Sung-pil, © Han Sung-pil

 

Portrait of Han Sung-pil, © Han Sung-pil

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