General Entry - Emerging Talent Awards

Wozu -Human struggle in our daily life like a war “Wozu” is a german word which means “what for” This project is a process of self-examination about reasons for the existence and role. I have to find uncanny, beautiful subject. Familiar sense of difference from Very skinny, fat, muscular subject have something beyond beauty. Mysterious, beautiful These works Using digital process made with b&w print, within fast changing our civilization express modern man’ struggle in our daily life like a war with human nude. As seen in the Socrates allegory of the cave, all humans are constantly struggling with their alter egos in the thin boundaries between pain and pleasure. In an endless circle of life and death—born in and cross the water to breathe his last breath—humans have been searching for the reasons for the existence and resisted the world and self-made limitations. Humans are often depicted as fruits fallen off the trees in the Norse mythology. Likewise, the story of Babel tower, in which the tower is reminiscent of a tall tree, seems to describe a human challenge against God as well as a desperate struggle to climb the tower to find the origin. Suddenly awake from sleep I wrote these sentences. I reflected myself in water and there was a stranger. I wish he disappeared tomorrow These became starting point of my work