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WON SEOUNG WON
(B. 1972)
My Age of Seven: The Sea in My Mom's Hometown
signed 'Seoung Won' in English (on the sticker on the reverse)
chromogenic print
105 x 175 cm. (41 3/8 x 68 7/8 in.)
edition 7/7
Executed in 2010
Literature
CAMERATa, Seoul, Korea, May 2010 (different edition illustrated, p. 88).
Hyundae Munhak, Seoul, Korea, August 2010(different edition illustrated, cover).
Photoart, Seoul, Korea, September 2010 (different edition illustrated, p. 106).
Singdoga, Seoul, Korea, February 2011 (different edition illustrated, p. 341).
Exhibited
Seoul, Korea, Gana Art Gallery, My Age of 7 in 1978, 13 May-6 June 2010 (different edition exhibited).
Seoul, Korea, Museum of Photography Seoul, New Collection, 11 September-4 December 2010. (different edition exhibited).
Seoul, Korea, Interalia Art Company, Edition: The Expanded Genre, 26 November-10 December 2010 (different edition exhibited).
Seoul, Korea, 123 Gallery, 3 Artists, 25 February-25 March 2011 (different edition exhibited).
Hong Kong, China, CAIS Gallery, Hello Tomorrow, 18 February-18 March 2011 (different edition exhibited).
Sale Room Notice
The correct dimensions for the image size is: 105 x 175 cm. (41 3/8 x 68 7/8 in.).

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Lot Essay

Dismantled dream laden photographs of Won Seoung Won are gathered from her distant childhood memories fused in Pop-Surreralistic whim; the beginning, middle and ending of the story is unclear with episodic events, negating any rational reasoning, but the image of the events are crisply detailed and clear, visually contradicting the blurred sensation of a dream. My Age of Seven: The Sea in My Mom's hometown (Lot 1486) is reconstructed and reinterpreted nostalgia of Won in pure visual juxtaposition; accumulated fragments of flat pictures for a final photomontage-methodically sequential in the process of collecting, arranging and allocating; symbolic in its densely layered tableau for a contemplative mode of visual and emotional intricacies. Won's adept proficiency for composition is clear in her sharp understanding for the possibility of expansion of space with appropriate tuning of perceptive and geometric angles. Flooding the countryside outside of her photographic frame with intuitive visual tilts that roam the waves in action, providing dynamic spatial depths, the shape of triangular roofs, the escalating stairs and the sharp points of paper boats all angle in a sequential movement. Won successfully elicits melancholic aura whilst referencing to current events as she insinuates a childhood memory that is slowly diminishing together with these nostalgic and humble villages flooded and forgotten under the present day's modernization.

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