CROSSOVER, 3+1, 2nd PHOTOSPECTRUM 2012: Gallery Jinsun, Südkorea

Gallery Jinsun has grown along with young and aspiring Korean photographers since its establishment. From 2011, Gallery Jinsun has hold exhibitions together with overseas growing photographers called PHOTOSPECTRUM INT. As part of international exhibitions, "PHOTOSPECTRUM INT" in Korea is designed to play a key role of cultural communication amongst the global photo art markets and to give an insight to the flow of the modern photos via versatile foreign photo arts. The Second project is organized with International arts exhibit named „Crossover, 3+1“. Through this „Crossover, 3+1“, spectators have an opportunity for appreciation of a new aspect of modern photography in the 21st century. I cordially expect that "2nd PHOTOSPECTRUM INT 2012" will not only enrich the cultural contents of contemporary photography, but also be a great opportunity to widen cultural exchanges globally. Additionally, I would like to extend my sincere gratitude to all who assisted with this event, the involved and participating photographers.

Sun HUH Director of Gallery Jinsun

At „Crossover, 3+1" exhibition, 4 contemporary photographers with great potential in the future through their creative and experimental works, exhibit their works. These young generation from Hungary, Austria, Russia, and South Korea, distinctively unfold the unique world they feel and experience through photography. The dictionary definition of "Crossover" is the cross of multiple genres. As the title of the exhibition suggests, at „Crossover, 3+1“ exhibition, the different styles for 4 contemporary photographers are met to explore the new relationships and the potential in the contemporary modern photography. 

Pausing the time through photograph unfolds "visual unconscious" which was said by Walter Benjamin; in other word, enabling us to see what we are not able to see through our eyes. Thus, the photography in modern times shines in the notion of unconscious. In addition, as Roland Barthes said once that photograph showed "Now and Here", photographers record the real scenes or create a unique world based on their imagination beyond the visible range. In the latter case, the photograph reinterprets and reproduces what things are. However, the visual re-interpretation of the invisible world by photographers is the image of the invisible word, the new image of the world that is felt in the same times and the image where our past, present and future coexist.  

Artists

Gabor Kasza  |  born in 1978, HU

Paul Schneggenburger  |  born in 1982, DE

Katerina Belkina  |  born in 1974, RU

Seung Hee Hong  |  born in 1979, KOR

Gabor KASZA (Hungary) His series „Y“ establish the situations focusing on the composition for his imaging. His photography deals with the humans and the humans in our times, the fundamental and controversial issues; arouses our attention; and interprets the turning point of human history in his own ways. The works of Gabor KASZA present the look of humans who continue to transform the environment, as well as the dreams and fears. He also draws our attention to our ways of life which can be consciously chosen and the accompanied responsibilities and, furthermore, lets us explore our identity and look back on our life with critical mind against the society. 

Paul SCHNEGGENBURGER (Austria) His series 「The Sleep of the Beloved」 shows the images of the sleep of lovers in the space he produced through the prolonged exposure to 6 hours. His series „The Sleep of the Beloved“, based on his curiosity about the sleep of people, aims to find the link between the emotion of lovers and the places for lovers. The images, created in his curiosity about what will happen when the lovers are asleep, whether tenderness is expressed while they are asleep, whether they turn their back to each other, or they are linked with something, are the results of his exploration about the unconscious. 

Katarina BELKINA (Russia) She sees humans as the creatures prowling to find a link with the universe. To her, modern cities are artificial and materialistic, and the space where loneliness and emptiness co-exist. She reproduces the look of modern people living in these places with her unique touch and processes them into the new images. The world urbanized in this way is artificial and materialistic and the humans who are a mere point in the world constructed artificially are likely to feel as if they are just abandoned. Katarina BELKINA tries to express in her works these inner questions and answers about how she lives and feels in a city as a human and how she lives and feels herself as a woman in a city. Through her eyes, big cities have created a new type of human being. And there remains only consciousness about the link with the truthful universe. 

Seung Hee HONG (Korea) Her series „The force for the depth“ represents the meaning of the forced and coerced depth in a space. In other words, she expresses the unintended momentary situation through reflecting the look of daily life and imagining the directed situation. The spaces she created look very strange and the scenes finished with mystery wrinkles give strangeness and mystique. The trace of wrinkles felt in the objects in our everyday life are highlighted in her virtual space and represented in the depth of life. In other words, she remembers the moment she felt in the objects in our everyday life and reproduces those scenes in the real world through her unique ways. 

"Crossover, 3+1“ will exhibit the works of the artists who realize a variety of photography in today's contemporary world and are absorbed in their works, and open our senses and imagination, as if it opens Pandora's box. This is also an invisible world, that is to say a new image of the world felt in the same times and suggests another look of our diversified life. ■ Joanne Junga YANG

Venue

Gallery Jinsun 
Director: Huh, Sun
209-17, Segeomjeong-ro, Jongno-gu, Seoul, South Korea
zip code 03015
Phone: +82 (0)2 723-3340
Email: galleryjinsun@hanmail.net
URL: http://www.jinsunart.com