TAB Event - Seung Woo Back "Real World"

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At Foil Gallery
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Foil Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of photographs by Korean photographer Seung Woo Back. This exhibition will introduce the artist's works in Japan for the first time. The artist has produced several series of photographs with a consistent theme. He carefully composes the objects and makes the viewers get lost in his fantasy "Real World" that is strange, cynical and distorted.
"Real World" is a series of photographs taken in a South Korean theme park that features miniatures of world famous tourist places. Fake architecture and the realistic Seoul landscape coexists there, and the rather calm images evoke an odd sensation and suggest the envy that South Koreans turn towards outside countries. Another series "Blow Up" is a set of enlarged photographs extracted from an original film taken in North Korea. Like sneak shots, the images play skillfully on their viewers' voyeuristic interests. The reality of the country, different from the scene we normally see through sometimes exaggerated media reports, gradually slips out from the blown up images.
Mixing these two different series together in one exhibition, we reveal the ironical fantasy and yet unfulfilled wish of the two countries and force the most realistic state of the Korean Peninsula to come to the front.

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