- 2017
- digital print
- five parts, each 594 x 841 mm
Ephemera: Posters, Gwangju, 2014–2015
This series belongs to a larger thread of our work related to the notion of “infra-flat.” We proposed the concept of infra-flat (obviously inspired by Duchamp’s notion of infrathin) in order to describe a sense of depth created by the same force that has been flattening the world: the technology of universal connectivity and instant access. It’s the kind of sense that is evoked once the force has crossed the threshold of total flatness – pseudo-depth, so to speak, for a vision that sees the world as a 3-D version of the 2-D. Our world has been flattened to the point where the depth is defined by the distance between a selfie pod and the subject. Infra-flat is about a negative depth possibly created by a selfie-pod vision once it has finally reduced the distance to minus degrees.
The blurry images – amorphous as if seen from too close a distance – make a clear contrast with the crisp materiality of their supporting structures (such physical apparatuses as paper, frames or tables). The subtitles – Poster, Seoul, 2007 or Postcard, Berlin, 2010, for example – seem to convey some straightforward facts, but they don’t impart any useful information.
- Project type:
- ambiguous
- Printed by:
- Top Process
