Korea Artist Prize
First published on 27 August 2016
Back Seung Woo / 2016 Korea Artist Prize
Back Seung Woo (b. 1973) confesses that the act of photographing within the era of excessive images is meaningless as if ‘shooting water gun under water. Photography’s inherent value of ‘instant’ and the aura of ‘truth’ of art history have long been engraved on the gravestone. In that sense, Back Seung Woo is a contemporary ‘artist’ who studied ‘photography’ and (skillfully) uses the language of ‘photography’. He takes the method of reorganizing semantic network and manipulating the buoyant images on the surface of photograph and rather ‘collects’ images than ‘capture’ to unveil the subtle boundary between reality and unreality, virtual and real, and the seen and unseen.
Director: 김선혁/ Kim Sunhyuk | Translation: 박명숙/ Park Myoungsook | Director of Photography: 이종욱/ Lee Jongwook | Producer: 카스카/ caska
