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SHIN Young-Seong, <Korean dream>, Fan on wall, 510x200x40cm, 1986
SHIN Young-Seong, <The Clock Swallowed the Sun>, Clock, wood window, light objet, 100x40x215cm, 1987
[Korea] SHIN Young-Seong Korean dream The Clock Swallowed the Sun
Shin Young-Seong started work as a member of <Nanjido> Coterie in 1985. He has been interested in works dreaming of the recovery of humanity by pointing out structural contradiction in modern society. Shin Young-Seong became disillusioned with the culture of scientific technology where humans are reduced to machine and can be standardized. He was disappointed with the contradiction and irrationality of culture and how life on the earth is sequenced and categorized as good and devil. In 1985, he destroyed objects such as a clock and a fan with a hammer, an electric saw, and fire. The clock lost its function and was destroyed. The fan's shape was distorted like the appearance of lifeless people. This act of destruction symbolized people who are isolated and dumped without any dignity. |
