Digital print
217 x 103 cm
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This work serves as a visual record and reconstruction of how the image-based reality of the city is consumed like a ruin. The artist photographs construction sites on the verge of demolition, collapsed walls, and fragments of artificial materials. These images are torn, layered, and collaged into a new kind of ‘landscape.’ But this landscape does not depict reality. It operates like an image that mimics the real, and the image itself behaves like a sensory remnant-hollow, fragmented, and detached. In this work, the distinctions between ruin, image, and landscape are deliberately blurred, flattened into a single surface where they function as equivalents. The sight of a construction site glimpsed through a thin screen has become an ordinary part of daily life. Urban change is recognized first as image, then consumed again as a sensory fragment. Time, place, material, and trace within the city are thus reduced to a collapsed visual surface. This work begins with a skepticism toward such “familiarity,” aiming to recompose the landscape of reality by defamiliarizing it-through the fragmented, layered pieces of countless images
Hong Woo-in has maintained a sustained interest in that which escapes language and exceeds understanding. Through the use of various aesthetic devices, the artist displaces subjects into realms of the incomprehensible. In doing so, the work resists viewing the world as a fixed and deterministic model, instead exploring its potential as a more fluid and open system.