Ham Sungju
b. 1990, South KoreaThe images that pass in front of you are flattened by the liquid crystal. The real world passes flat and smoothly between our thumbs on our smartphones. By translating the images Sungju Ham see on smartphone screen and computer monitor every day through a series of processes and transferring them to the canvas, he focused on the boundaries of experiencing images. Physical and digital images are collected through various paths, mainly objects that are familiar to him, and translated into the artist’s body without hierarchy on the canvas.
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