Due to the influence of my father, who had been taking a lot of pictures
since I was a child, it was a habit for me to record my daily life with
pictures or paintings. For this reason, it was natural to start ‘painting’ in
earnest and use everything I encounter in my daily life as a subject of
painting. During more than 10 years of activity as an artist, I’m attempting to
move the methods of self-expression that exposes themselves in various ways,
such as photos and videos, by collecting everyday life into personal online
media.
Online environment → SNS (sharing of everyday personal
life) → New lifestyle → New material for art
The rhythms of our frenetically paced lives are leaving the daily lives of modern people increasingly desolate. Individualization has intensified, with the result that we are vulnerable emotionally to feelings of alienation and isolation. Amid this phenomenon of emotional “desertification,” modern individuals are creating a new landscape in which online social media are used to share images from their daily lives with people around the world. They also used personal video media—namely one-person broadcasting—to expose their daily lives, their thoughts, and their sometimes bizarre behaviors. We have truly arrived at a situation where the trivial daily experiences of single individuals and groups become a focus of intense popular attention instead of the existing minority of large-scale media (TV, radio, newspapers, and the like). We have been exposed to various forms of closed circuit tv, and our society has recently been plagued by incidents involving the use of hidden cameras. I am attempting an artistic experiment where the motif is an examination of this phenomenon today, in which individuals live amidst an ironic relationship with the desire to expose themselves and unintended forms of exposure with the phenomena that have become so common frequently on social media.
The rhythms of our frenetically paced lives are leaving the daily lives of modern people increasingly desolate. Individualization has intensified, with the result that we are vulnerable emotionally to feelings of alienation and isolation. Amid this phenomenon of emotional “desertification,” modern individuals are creating a new landscape in which online social media are used to share images from their daily lives with people around the world. They also used personal video media—namely one-person broadcasting—to expose their daily lives, their thoughts, and their sometimes bizarre behaviors. We have truly arrived at a situation where the trivial daily experiences of single individuals and groups become a focus of intense popular attention instead of the existing minority of large-scale media (TV, radio, newspapers, and the like). We have been exposed to various forms of closed circuit tv, and our society has recently been plagued by incidents involving the use of hidden cameras. I am attempting an artistic experiment where the motif is an examination of this phenomenon today, in which individuals live amidst an ironic relationship with the desire to expose themselves and unintended forms of exposure with the phenomena that have become so common frequently on social media.
These
days, it feels as though those media have transformed from places where people
shared trivial things from daily life into settings for showing off — as if to
say “Look how well I’m living.” As different apps are used to post selfies and
pictures of good news, nice clothes, and overseas trips, social media are being
used not as diaries to record the events of our daily lives, but as a means of
showing. In the online world, people create ‘another me’ and live in
relationships. This work is about using these shared images to address the
desires obscured behind the lyrical masks shown in everyday landscapes.
_Live Cam Painting
Live Cam Painting is a painting performance that I do using videos that are broadcasted
live via the Internet such as surveillance cameras, webcams, or private
cameras. I directly project the silhouettes of the moving figures in the fixed
background spaces of the videos onto canvas. Live Cam Painting that I’m working on at the
moment is a live painting work that unveils the lives of certain people who
broadcast their private lives through certain websites. I project their videos
that contain their personal lives onto my canvas to make paintings. ” I was
also doing a research on the phenomenon of how people share their private lives
in the Internet space. During this time, I accidently discovered a website that
viewers can “peep” into other people’s lives (some young couples in Europe
install several cameras in their houses to expose their private lives to the
whole world). I project these people’s lives exposed in such websites directly
onto my canvas and paint what happens in real time. This performance will be
carried on during the entire exhibition period while marking the traces of
certain time in which these people live onto the surface of a canvas.
_Live Portrait
The Live Portrait is a work that records the traces of time just like ‘Live Cam Painting’ does.
This is
a new complex form work of painting, performance, and media collaboration,
which simultaneously presents conversation and painting, the process is exposed
as it is, and records are presented at the same time.
In
traditional classic paintings, you can observe objects and move what you
remember to the canvas, Live Portrait extends the characteristics of painting
through multiple captures and leaves a trace of time during real time
conversation.
In the
digital age of the 21st century, painting is not just a reproduction
of the object, but a new attempt to make the audience experience a variety of
boundless complex arts.
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