Exhibition Information

Exhibition View

Transparent camouflage - Windows
2019 Vinyl _Aluminum _Led lighting 230x608x100(d)cm

			Seeing is a matter of acute importance. Each "sight" constantly operates, calibrates and accumulates the "self-awareness system" that is controlled by autonomous body organs and sensory organs and is the basis for autonomy. Given that this subjective spring guarantees individual uniqueness, the stage of development in modern society toward hyper-concentration has resulted in a gradual restriction on these modern people's subjective 'views'. Restricting the right to choose the image and objects that are subject to gaze upon does not simply mean that the starting point of the function that we autonomously recognize and process images only operates limitedly from the retina to within the body, but that the individual's identity is no longer fully exercised in the act of seeing something.

For example, individuals living in large cities all day spend most of their day in buildings, roads, transportation facilities, offices, apartments, restaurants, coffee shops, etc., built and operated by a variety of specific rules, such as industrial standards, safety certification, etc. Here our gaze becomes passive in order to be fully assured of one's own complacent day, within the confines of these rules and within the social system. Of course, there is a kind of emancipator here where the development of IT technology allows access to infinite digital images, but it is likely to be a passive spectator.

In his representative book, Michael Foucault (1926 - 1984), "Monitoring and Punishing (1975), the capitalist social structure that seeks to increase and standardize production and efficiency has worked to make this phenomenon universal."
Mass media has been mobilized to build such a unified and spatter society, but it is later promoted to be the subject of continuing to consolidate this phenomenon on a voluntary basis, and the unbridled mix of public and commercialism has defined our daily lives, eroding our uniqueness and eroding our self-reliance status. In other words, our immediate response to the Samra Manang and the formation of the mental image depend in large part on the aspect (value system, norms, lifestyle) that the connected society has been working on. The root of the subjective thinking that separates me from others on certain issues and objects is not really based on a very independent soil, but rather as a result of the deviation of individuals from information commonly given by mass media according to their characteristics, and the gain of the media results in a reduction in the differentiation between each of these individuals' thinking and a deepening of certain responses and judgments.

The exhibition was designed to provide an opportunity for us to look critically at our preconceptions and thinking system, which has been extensively formed by batters, through the "windows" presented by four authors, Kim Beom, Hong Jang-ho, Jung Hee-seung and Kwon Yong-joo. Extraordinary works featuring unorthodox personalities and extroverted or near-cut violations of common sense categories reject a uniform interpretation of the existing value system and encourage viewers to operate their own thinking system. Although this system of thinking is bound to depend on the cumulative information learned in a uniform manner, as mentioned in the preliminary paragraph, it is expected that each viewer will have the opportunity to elicit numerous variations and interpretations based on the allegory embedded in the work, while actively analogy the author's intentions, thereby raising the horizons of their perception to a new level.