TRINITY

Trinity (Lot 233), a work from Yi Hwan-kwon's 2009 Movie series, renders representative scene from the 1970 Italian western comedy film They Call Me Trinity by E. B. Crucher. To create the subtle three-dimensional figures, Yi first captures digital still image from the movie and processes it with graphics software. The flat image is then transformed to sculptural form. Through this complex process, Yi recreates the entire mise en scène in its three dimensional totality but the image becomes vertically stretched as if seen on a compressed cinematic screen. The distorted and incongruous nature of the relationship between the two characters (Trinity and horse) in the work is complemented by the visual warp, and the quiet scene emphasises the form of a trusting bond founded on their unit y. Challenging both the intellect and the sense with his preferred references to widescreen films and virtual reality, this optically distorted sculpture of Yi Hwan-Kwon di splay of conformity is absurdly bent. Not only is the visceral experience that is lost before the filmic screen restored into our reality through Yi's freeze frame world, but this compression inject s vitality into the variable relationship between the two-dimensional and three-dimensional realms. Yi's sculptures provoke a visual experience in space and time, which elicits a sense of discomfort when viewing seemingly familiar objects and people. Our predicated perception must adjust. Yi's coveted work holds an innate consideration of the existing environment and at the same time emphasises the discovery of new interactive relationships between natural and artificial, illusion and reality.