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| Respecting Seong Tae-hun's Work |
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| Since the terror of 9/11, Iraq War, London terror, and 20 Koreans kidnapped by Taliban,… no one in the world is free from a type of vague, psychological uneasiness caused by the heightened level of conflict and discovery of latent contradictions that had remained beneath the surface all the while. The mutual disbelief and rupture of communication among countries, religions, and cultures threaten the life of the human race in the vicious cycle of violence, terror, and warfare. Through my work, I want to reveal our daily life intertwined with this vicious cycle. |
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| It was started under the theme of 'Wall,'in which I used images of a shower, toilet, and plumbing pipes of a bathroom and sometimes overlapped images of the footage of the ruined wreckage from 9/11 and images of my own daughter. At the time of the disaster, when the world was horribly appalled with the collapse and ruin of the World Trade Center, I witnessed my four year old daughter stare at the scenes on TV as if she saw computer games played. It was then that I found an 'Invisible Wall' existing between the subject of cognition and its surrounding world, that is to say, a disconnection. To overcome this 'Invisible Wall', I portrayed the wall with so many dots allowing the penetration and plumbing pipes enabling water to flow through the walls. |
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My current work put the violence into shape more than the previous work. It has the presence of landscapes where insects flutter and buzz around the four gracious plants(plum, orchid, chrysanthemum and bamboo) or other vegetation. These plants stand for the ideal world in which we can live nobly, faithfully and most of all peacefully. But there are horseflies sucking the blood of livestock and mosquitoes bothering people in this ideal world, which are figured as fighter planes herein. These are the symbols of violence, fear, and bothersome that menace and annoy our society unceasingly. With the uncomfortable coexistence of the four gracious plants and verminin my works, I hope we can have a chance to ruminate upon the fear and the indisposition of our times. |
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| - Seong Tae-hun - |
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