Wednesday 28 October 2020

These sculptures almost disappear when viewed head-on

Hoyoon Shin creates art made of razor-thin metal, paper, and plastic. From the side, they look solid, but from the front they reveal their emptiness.

In an artist's statement, he explained his philosophy:

I who get more interested in social phenomena approach the essence of them, realizing that the nearer I approach, the clearer there is no essence.

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