SEUNG JAE KIM
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Existential issues on photography

I thought about a role of photography in this issue as a media that I’ve worked with more than a decade. Which can recode vision with less emotional interfere (technically). And there are changes when something is photographed but these changes are not so clear to understand because photography mimics human vision. We mix our memory, imagination and photographed image all together. So photography can’t reveal these changes by itself. In my works, on the contrary, it binds things that we think they are not together. In other words, it makes a symmetrical point of correspondence with changes in my sense. I try to interact or penetrate with that visual and time space by making secondary photo-documentations based on prejudice and absolute trust about photography through physical manipulating in front of myself with camera. To accomplish this, I use life size photographs on pink boards planted on the ground, and figures that resist gravity- into the frame. While these introduce elements of humor to the work but it also generates an image with its own visual field.
In each trial, each project, I introduce optical, physical and social alterations that works to operate between myself (the photographer), and my subject; Also each project simplifies those changes by magnified specific events. In doing so, I begin to see what’s in front of me and how the visual recognition functions on existence.