English / Korean
Memories of Future
Exhibition Catalog for Leeum, Seoul, Korea, August 2010
Photography is the easiest and most effective tool for capturing three-dimensional spaces in two-dimensional images. Thus, far more than painting or sculpture, its functional aspect of representing the reality as is has been greatly emphasized. Photographic images, however, constitute their own worlds that are different from the reality. Furthermore, with the growing possibilities of computer-assisted manipulation and transformation in recent years, almost no one believes that photographs show the reality as is. Osang Gwon, who takes pictures of actual people and turning the pictures into three-dimensional objects, traverses the boundaries between photography and sculpture, 2-D and 3-D, illusion and reality, and readily occupies an unclear position in artistic genres.