Myungkeun KOH's Solo Exhibition_curated by Sun Young KIM
Myung Keun Koh turns two-dimensional photographs into three-dimensional sculptures. He photographs the surfaces of three-dimensional objects and constructs three-dimensional sculptures with collages of photographs. Paintings, sculpture, and photography thus become integral parts of a single work. Actuality is reconstructed, and the illusions imparted by the images are haunting. Photographs and sculptures, and architecture and illusionary images vibrate in multiple layers of a single body. Koh majored in sculpture in college and has been turning photographs into sculptures and applying photographs sculpturally for many years. His works transform two-dimensional photographs into three-dimensional spectacles that are very unlike conventional sculptures, and his works are a world apart from photographic works. If sculptures are represented by mass, form, and volume, Koh's sculptures, which are defined by the surface, are so light and so illusionary that they veritably share the realm of painting. Koh's sculptures are relatively free of the law of gravity and are not mass or form.
