| Kein Vogel singt mehr |
| Tae Hun KANG |
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Kein Vogel singt mehr
Kang Tae Hun delves into how diverse mechanisms of capitalist society repress the minds of individual beings. He makes use of everyday objects and texts to deliver in the metaphoric and symbolic manners his observation of multilateral social phenomena being generated in the whole world including South Korea and other Asian countries from a critical point of view. His early works, shown in Germany and South Korea, directed his eyes to the repressive relationships between the powerful and the individual, which were conveyed by the use of faucets and other objects that could be found in daily life. The invisible repressive power to control and coerce someone else is materialized by the faucets attached to various objects such as stuffed animals, eggs, books, life buoys and high heels, and it was presented as the historical and realistic power of a nation to lock up the true nature of an object and the autonomy of the individual. Kang argues that power does not exercise physical and actual suppression and that a more fundamental problem is that it has placebo effects to appease all kinds of stresses and resistances generated in everyday life by interfering in the unconsciousness of the public.
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