SEONGYOUN KOO | 구성연
Koo makes a 'parable' to humans. The author selects materials such as butterflies, glass, sand, flower pots, popcorn, candy and sugar, makes his or her own subjects, and then disposes of them or disappears naturally. Through this process, the final result presented to the observer is a photograph of a subject in which a moment's process is fixed, but the writer's work becomes a "parable" to humans as the work process and the properties of the subject's material are combined.
Just as a beautiful butterfly becomes an inedible worm when it sits on rice, not a flower, the series of <Flower> and <Nabi> showed that changing the position of things can lose conventional value. In the series of <Plotting>, a scene in which a pot for physiognomy erodes human space was created, paradoxically satirizing the human attitude toward nature as an object of conquest. Also, She began filming artificial natural landscapes by hand. By creating flowers and trees using morphologically similar objects, it revealed the ambiguous boundaries between reality and reproduction. <Popcorn> series produced plum blossoms that bloom quickly with popcorn that is fried in an instant, and <Candy> series produced peony flowers wishing for hope with sweet candies. In the series of <Sugar>, we looked back on the plasticity of our existence through sugar ornaments that melt away by making non-functional ornaments into sugar.
She explains In her work note: 'I love things. But unlike when someone says they love nature, love their mother, or love freedom and justice, I'm always a little shy when I say I love things. That's because most of the things I'm hugging are useless. These items are all so-called 'decorations'... Made of cheap materials, these items have become worthless, but they do not cause war or slaughter. These objects, neither for the king nor for the lord, will be called 'decorations' everywhere and disappear peacefully. I make these things again with sugar. It shines golden and flashes like gold, but these ornaments, made by melting sugar, flash under the light without any function, leaving a picture and melting away.'
She has BFA from Dongguk University’s department of Indian Philosophy and Seoul Institute of the Art’s department of Photography. Her work is a part of the collection at National museum of Contemporary Art and Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art in Republic of Korea.
INQUIREbiography
EDUCTION
1994 B.A. Dept. of Indian philosophy, Dongguk University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
1997 B.F.A. Dept. of Photography, Seoul Institute of the Arts, Seoul, Republic of Korea
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2015 Sugar, Gallery YEH, Seoul, Republic of Korea
2009 Candy, Trunk Gallery, Seoul, Republic of Korea
2007 Popcorn, Ssamzigil Gallery, Seoul, Republic of Korea
2005 Plant Container, Project Space Zip, Seoul, Republic of Korea
2004 Sand, Duckwon Gallery, Seoul, Republic of Korea
2001 Glass, KEPCO Gallery, Seoul, Republic of Korea
2000 Butterfly, Seonam Photo Space, Seoul, Republic of Korea
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2020 Flower, Flower, Flower, Seoul Batanic Park, Seoul, Republic of Korea
2019 Visual Delights, Gwangju Museum of Art, Gwangju, Republic of Korea
2018 8th Yeosu Art Festival, Yeosu, Republic of Korea
2018 Botanica, Busan Museum of Art, Busan, Republic of Korea
2018 Eye Opening, Gallery Lux, Seoul, Republic of Korea
2017 Variants of Objects, Daejeon Museum of Art, Daejeon, Republic of Korea
2016 DNA, Daegu Art Museum, Daegu, Republic of Korea
2015 Accidental Encounter, Buk Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Republic of Korea
2014 Photo Sight, National Museum of Modern Art, Gwacheon, Republic of Korea
2013 Love Actually, Seoul Museum, Seoul, Republic of Korea
2012 Art and Cook, Sejong Museum of Art, Seoul, Republic of Korea
2011 Hello Tomorrow, CAIS gallery, Hongkong
2010 10th Photo Festival - after 2010, Gana Art Center, Seoul, Republic of Korea
2010 The Asia Pacific Contemporary Art fair, Shanghai Exhibition Center, Shanghai
2010 Oh! Masterpieces, Gyeonggido Museum of Art, Ansan, Republic of Korea
2009 Korean Contemporary Photo Now, 798 space gallery, Beijing
2009 Serotonin, Seoul museum of art, Seoul, Republic of Korea
2009 Photo Korea 2009 - Shooting image, Coex, Seoul, Republic of Korea
2009 Dream factory, Gana Art center, Busan, Republic of Korea
2008 Contemporary Korean photographs, National museum of art, Gwacheon, Republic of Korea
2008 New Acquisitions collection reconstructed, Gyeonggido Museum of Art, Ansan, Republic of Korea
2008 The Big and hip Korean Photography Now, Gallery Ro, Seoul, Republic of Korea
2008 Reversion, Gallery IHN, Seoul, Republic of Korea
2007 Asian young artists, Gallery MOA, Heyri, Republic of Korea
2007 Dream space, Gallery NOW, Seoul, Republic of Korea
2006 Digital mise-en-scene, Hakgojae, Seoul, Republic of Korea
2006 Ultra Sence-Seoul International Photo Festival, Seoul, Republic of Korea
2006 SeMa 2006 ; Selected Emerging Artist, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Republic of Korea
2005 Snow Blossom, Gallery Ssamzigil, Seoul, Republic of Korea
2005 Domestic Drama, Project Space Zip, Seoul, Republic of Korea
2005 Pop up Image, Heyri Spring Festival, Paju, Republic of Korea
2004 Flower Flows Flowery, Artinus gallery, Seoul, Republic of Korea
2004 Red rose & POSCO, Posco ArtMuseum, Seoul, Republic of Korea
2003 Dong-gang Photo Festival-Korean young 60 photograpers, Yeongwol, Republic of Korea
2003 Art and Playing, Seoul Art center Hangaram Museum, Seoul, Republic of Korea
2003 Delicious Museum, Insa Art center, Seoul, Republic of Korea
2002 New Face Total Museum, Janghung, Republic of Korea
Public Collection
National museum of Contemporary Art, Art Bank, Seoul, Republic of Korea
Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Republic of Korea
selected works
Candy Series p.04
2010, Light jet c-print, 120x147cm
Candy Series p.05
2010, Light jet c-print, 80x98cm / 120x147cm
Candy Series v.03
2010, Light jet c-print, 65x90 / 110x150cm
Candy Series v.04
2010, Light jet c-print, 65x90 / 110x150cm
Candy Series c.08
2019, Light jet c-print, 75x100 / 120x150cm
Candy Series c.07
2019, Light jet c-print, 75x100 / 120x160 / 150x200cm
Candy Series c.04
2009, Light jet c-print, 60x90 / 150x100cm
Candy Series c.06
2019, Light jet c-print, 75x100 / 120x160 / 150x200cm
Candy Series d.01
2011, Light jet c-print, D 110cm
Candy Series d.04
2013, Light jet c-print, D 70cm
Candy Series R.03
2013, Light jet c-print, 80x100 / 160x200cm
Candy Series g.01
2017, Light jet c-print, 80x98 / 120x147cm
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