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The Lookout; Objects by Chung Seo-Young
The double imagery of Sculpture with a view and a bad View implies that the familiar can easily shift to the foreign or vice versa. As in this particular work, Chung Seo-Young's oeuvre is simultaneously familiar and alien. But the alienation differs from the conventional art practices wherein either shock is used to jolt the viewer/reader out of habitual modes of perception, to establish a critical distance, or to advocate the purity of experience. Her work is not an apparent shock to the viewer but instead it jettisons the viewer into a 'post-shock state' where the first impact has already been absorbed.
The trained acceptance of result that is not all that startling - would be due to boredom - that sentiment at the very heart of capitalism. In the work titled -Awe, the object(in this instance, a character) is turned into a sign and aestheticized and it becomes a mechanism that does the reverse; by retaining the object or ma...
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