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Artist Changmin Lim combines photos and videos taken while traveling to express them in one frame. The image shown through the window is a video image that expresses the feeling of realism of the beach.

Artist Bae Joon sung shows the change of image through the lenticular that combines the two paintings. The two screens, the visible and the invisible, express a moving painting extended from flat painting.

Artist Changmin Lim combines photos and videos taken while traveling to express them in one frame. The winter snowy landscape seen through the door looks very static and feels very meditative.

Artist Changmin Lim combines photos and videos taken while traveling to express them in one frame. The mountain seen through the window is Sanbangsan in Jeju Island.

Artist Bae Joon-sung shows the change of image through the lenticular that combines the two images. The two screens, the visible and the invisible, express a moving painting extended from flat painting.

This work is painted on vinyl. Behind the vinyl is a photo layer. The two overlap to complete one work. The two layers show different spaces and times.

It is a work that expresses the movement of various animals. in the style of children's drawings.

It is a work that combines photography and video, and you can see the movement of the landscape outside in the quiet living room landscape.

To materialize an icon, it should reflect current time and space. Sign related to numerous meanings that are created and disappeared, or reinterpreted. Anyway, if the meaning or sign remains only a form, we call it ‘icon.’ When an icon of the specific era is replaced by another time and space, the icon remains only a form.

As for art, Sung Pil CHAE relies on a Taoist vision of nature and its five elements (fire, water, wood, metal, and earth). These five changing (mutable) elements, perceived like various phases of transitionary stages of a process of mutual conceiving. The easel is the wood; the ink or binder is the water; the color is the fire and the finely crushed clay is the earth; the silver hue or pearly powder symbolizes metal.

For the artist Sung Pil CHAE, earth is the most fundamental element of the five elements. That is to say, earth is perceived as a being that contains all of fire, water, wood, and metal. His works actually show the fundamental position of earth, integration and consilience, which combines such many elements into one. He completes his painting through the process of washing some of the paint off on the canvas or letting the soil spread in the previous step.

As for art, Sung Pil CHAE relies on a Taoist vision of nature and its five elements (fire, water, wood, metal, and earth). These five changing (mutable) elements, perceived like various phases of transitionary stages of a process of mutual conceiving. The easel is the wood; the ink or binder is the water; the color is the fire and the finely crushed clay is the earth; the silver hue or pearly powder symbolizes metal.

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