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Younggi Kim<\/p>\n

Chief Curator, OCI Museum of Art<\/p>\n

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White blank is just hanging<\/p>\n

Scanning repeatedly, but \u2018can\u2019t see anything\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018Still installating?\u2019 \u2018Is it the wrong place?\u2019 Quickly check the exhibition period, stay calm and keep eyes wide open with a new mindset. After a short silence, the bloodshot eyes finally catch something on it. A feeling of uncertainty. Anxiety. Cautious. Always become timid in such a situation. Should be confident when appreciating art by the way.<\/p>\n

Wait, I can see something. A face? One of the gallery docent can\u2019t stand my tilting head and doubting without grasping the whole picture and gives a hint. \u2018\u2026 Buddha? It really is!?\u2019 \u201cThen, is this the queen?\u201d That’s correct. My confidence comes back. Shrug like Mr. Blind Shim who has just restored sight and stare at the next picture. Well, I don’t know who it is. It must be \u2018a face’. \u201cThis is the artist.\u201d ‘Oh, dear. I didn\u2019t ask for the answer.\u2019 I know I probably can\u2019t guess it anyway, but frown a little at the docent. Finally, I stand in front of the last frame. \u2018I can see it now\u2019<\/p>\n

Even if I rub my eyes and take the sharp angle, there is no focus even after 10 seconds and 20 seconds. The docent watches me. I imagine \u2018a man of laughter\u2019 behind the mask. Well, no wonder. Because it was really an empty frame.<\/p>\n

The brand new army knife (macgyver knife) overwhelms the old-fashioned Excalibur. Even if you do not major in photography, not carry Canon, and not confront rain and wind, you can get decent images with \u2018a phone camera\u2019. Whether you draw the sword at a mosquito or shoot at it, mosquitoes are going to be blown with blood. The quality of the built-in camera lens and image sensor of mobile phones have already exceeded the daily demands. What remains for both the seller and the customer is the title of \u2018superiority\u2019. Whether it\u2019s a sword or a cannon, you’ve got it. So, if you don’t use it, you are making a loss. Take a proof shot on a new phone, take a comparison shot with a friend\u2019s phone that has been too old to use, take a picture with the good smell of food, take a picture with such an emotion, and also take a picture to commemorate 100 likes. 100 million pixel high-definition images are overproduced and piled in every corner of the world.<\/p>\n

Most of the images flooding over this planet today have been produced by the masses. I mean the public who were just consumers a hundred years ago. The biased power of image production finally achieved justice in distribution, and its honey like power has been evaporated. At the forefront of this situation, there is the spread of cameras. [1] \u00a0The sound with the most number of plays in history would be the sound of a camera shutter, not BTS or anything. It conquered one by one like that. Photographers gave everything to the public, not only records, perspectives, sensibility, attitude and passion, but also visual awakening, re-examination, raising problems, and discourse based on the characteristics of the media. It\u2019s the very generous tree. \u201cUgh, what do I shoot now?\u201d<\/p>\n

Sungfeel Yun, who has been contemplating this topic for decades, decides to take the real thing (\u5beb\u771e, photography). Silver bromide photography, as the name implies, uses the property of the (halogen-based) silver compound (silver salt) in the photosensitive layer of photo paper that decomposes and darkens when exposed to light. The difference in the degree of exposure is the content (image) of the photograph. The process of highlighting the difference and making it visible is the phenomenon. Terminating the development with the stop bath and blocking the photosensitization with the fixer turn out to be the gelatin silver print that we see.<\/p>\n

Suddenly, he pours bleach. At last, the fixed layer on the surface of the photograph gets damaged, and the silver ions composing the image produce a compound again. So, it becomes white. Almost all of it is erased, but the invisible silver particles are barely left. An emergency restoring agent can still save some parts. It can settle as it is. Cold-hearted confirmation. It can’t turn back anymore. Nevertheless, photosensitization with silver particles still remains as a matter of fact. So, is the image there or not? Is the existence the cause and effect of action? Or is it the effect itself? If you say something is \u2018unrecognizable\u2019, doesn\u2019t it mean that you already recognize it?<\/p>\n

It can be seen as a confrontation between ontology and epistemology. But this artist is a materialist no matter what. There is no smoke without fire. Just like phenomena, recognition is also the result of effect. The unknown parts are the source and substance of mystery. Our big brother, G\u00f6del (Kurt Friedrich G\u00f6del, 1906-1978) identified the disappointing and discouraging fact that \u2018something that cannot be clarified forever exists inevitably\u2019. Therefore, what we can’t see and touch will always bother us. But Sungfeel Yun goes one step further and says, \u201cIt does not just exist. It\u2019s everywhere, overflowing. Almost all of them are like that.\u201d The realm of the unseen and things that cannot be grasped is much larger. The fact that the ratio of dark matter and dark energy[2]<\/a> is about 96% of the universe is to tell us \u2018There is something invisible! Much! Most of them!\u2019, and it is a dark shout from the night sky. It\u2019s not as it seems.<\/p>\n

If you can see the last picture, the artist will directly appoint you as the owner of the Mind\u2019s Eye. In fact, there is nothing. So, it is impossible even for Mongolian nomads wearing glasses to see something out of it. No matter how much you see, it\u2019s not everything. However, it feels like something is awkward. A picture that is not showing? Truth is invisible. \u2018Photos that show the unseen\u2019 would rather be nice. This is such a work and such an exhibition.<\/p>\n

The definition of photography in dictionary is a citation of the real thing. However, to him, truth is the principle of the world itself rather than the actual subject. Such ‘autheniticity\u2019 usually behaves haughtily with its name value. The fog surrounding it is thick, close yet far away, hard to see even if you open your eyes wide open, and hardly recognize… His picture frame, which is frustrating because it is white, is like \u2018a test tube sample containing the real thing\u2019 as it would be. \u2018Invisibleness\u2019 is taken clearly. The \u2018visibility\u2019 like thick fog around it is all erased with bleach. Originally, it looks like that, but the model of principle, the nude of principle is much more visible now. Photographers have never shown in this way before, and it makes us remind the meaning of photography.<\/p>\n

What I want to say is, the photography is not a matter. Where is the end of the visual arts? The art that discards the visuality is the visual art. Visual artists do not attach to visual anymore. Visual artists say, \u2018Don\u2019t get caught up with the visuality, don\u2019t stick to it, and overcome the delusion of it\u2019. I suddenly think of the owner of the lottery store who said, \u201cDon\u2019t even dream of getting rich.\u201d Isn\u2019t this such a gourmet who seeks the true taste of meat by biting his own flesh?<\/p>\n

[1] The second contributor will probably be A.I. imaging. The two are complementary. The assemblage of photos becomes an endless pool of A.I. learning samples, and A.I. intervention in photo production will save more sources.<\/p>\n

[2] Ad hoc to explain the insufficiency of the Accelerating Expansion of the Universe. It cannot be proven by direct observation. So, the modifier \u201cdark\u201d has been added.[\/lab_scroll_box][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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