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Mechanized Poodle, 2017, steel, 300×150×310cm, Commission for the Sea Art Festival 2017
Mechanized Human, 2017, steel, 200×300×300cm, Commission for the Sea Art Festival 2017
Mechanized Poodle Modern society has become more abundant in material terms, but the index
of happiness is decreasing. In the prevalence of selfishness and
dehumanization, people are becoming obsessed with the virtual world in the
desperation to escape from reality. The boundaries between the real and the
virtual are gradually collapsing, resulting in the complete loss of reality. One is a different self in such reality, and if ever wanted, other
selves can always be created. Mechanized humans and poodles are funny in expression,
but emanate a sense of forcedness and express the duality of human existence
between real and virtual worlds. Hong desired to capture human
and animal figures that transform as they adapt to the modern society, and deal
with the element of shock that comes from the loss of existence, perplexity of
identity, and the sense of human desires, loneliness, fears, and futility
hidden behind the external self. |
