beomsik won

Bemosik Won - Born in South Korea, studied photography and metals & jewelry design in Seoul and then moved to London where he completed a degree in fine art media. He has already been featured in many exhibitions including Hollywood, Seoul, London and Paris.

Technical - Won's pieces are assembled from dozens of cut-up black and white photographs in a process of deconstruction and reconstruction which ultimately creates new monuments from the buildings of London in his own digital sculptures made through the art of photography. The pieces may take hours to construct with digitally combining all the pieces in his puzzles in comparison to one quick snapshot taken in a spontaneous moment, with each part of his pieces cut up and placed to look like they actually exist in the world.
 
Visual - His work is constantly inspired through the city of London, with many of his pieces featuring famous monuments and buildings taken from our everyday landscape - the car park and escalators weaved into this image holds a sense of reality in a surreal landscape. His pieces defy laws of statics making them more surreal and monumental/sculptural. From architectural photographs and collages he creates urban mirages set in familiar landscapes which is perhaps is the only thing that connects the audience to the monuments.

Conceptual - His made-up monuments are glorified with the combined everyday constructions and artistically generated sculptures that tower above their landscapes which creates an idea of powerful inhuman forces. His work questions the understanding of contemporary photography and human perception. 

Photoshoot - I planned to exlpore around La collette and any other industrial or constructional places in town [the gas tower] and churches as they have many towers and turrets with intricate designs. This was to collect enough images of buildings to finally create a digital sculpture based on Beomsik Won's work. 


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