- 2017
- digital print
- 3 parts, each 144 × 192 mm, 150 × 210 mm, and 180 × 240 mm
Ephemera: Postcards, New York, 2012 / Seoul, 2012 / Seoul, 2013
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
- Printer:
- Top Process
