Cubes Spread out Across a Plane
The first solo exhibition ‘Dropping to the Surface’ of Kim Kyoungtae, who has built his own world of photography through the placid and homogeneous images of planes, opened at the exhibition hall Whistle from May 17 to June 22. Kim, who has been converting three-dimensional, which features a cropped photo of a cube. Thinking back on what the artist had said– that ‘focus stacking is similar to how the various aspects of an object perceived by the eye are cognized as a single object by the brain’ – it seems that the exhibition ‘Dropping to the Surface’ would help us to be able to approach the things around us and to better understand their essence. Yoon Wonhwa, a researcher of visual culture, wrote in her book (Vostok Press, 2018) that ‘through a vibrant dynamism expresses the spatial depth of being drawn into the vanishing point by the use of perspective distortion, Kim’s photos lie on the antipode of the photos that almost seem to create a virtual sound effect’. She added that ‘as an architectural photographer with a background in graphic design, the planal character of his photos is not limited to three-dimensional models and has the potential to either move or expand to other dimensions’.
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