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The Gate
by Gallery Hyundai
Location: Gallery Hyundai
Artist(s): Kyungwon MOON, Joonho JEON
Date: 14 Sep - 4 Oct 2011

I’ve transformed plastic legos into ceramic legos. So what?

If anyone had said that, I really don’t have an answer to it. But I can relate a lot of meanings into this transformation of the essential material.

There is absolutely no need to discuss or mention the banal Orientalism into the fact of switching plastic, the symbolic product of industrialization, into ceramic. But, do you not feel the humanity from the lego blocks—the symbolic product that standardizes everything with the Western analytical and structural thinking—that have been transformed into ceramic blocks in which the Oriental contemplativeness—the relaxed approach to the aesthetics—lay in the background, represented as complex and entangled architecture of blocks?     

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