MIN DONG GUN
MIN DONG GUN, korea
"there is no paradise where one can run away.”
Focused on a body of work that was centered on the formation of a traumatic image of witnessing parental intercourse.
The image of physical and instinctive body movements witnessed at an early age was deeply imprinted in my mind.
The buried memory was revived and expressed again in the context of the images I was struggling to remember.
In order to break away from this obsession with the body, I embarked on introspection about myself which would serve as the basis of my work.
This was followed by the work 'Self-loathing and Human Fragility' which became the foundation of my current work.
What I mean by self-loathing is an instinctive defensive posture of self-protection against one's own fundamental aspects that are not expressed or recognized but rather neglected by oneself.
I believe these are the most fundamental parts.
From this title of self-loathing, I took a diagrammatic form in my image making process.
There will be many points where one can feel the sense of inferiority towards one's essence.
And then, I eventually brought out my parents' intertwined bodies again.
Intercourse is carried out by two physical bodies intertwined with each other. Instinctive and embarrassing yet natural, we do this discreetly.
ART WORKS