Artist Gwon Osang is a sculptor who has continually questioned conventional notions of sculpture, persistently asking what sculpture truly is, and in doing so has developed his own distinctive sculptural language. Transcending the traditional boundaries of sculpture, he pioneered an original format that fuses photography and sculpture.

By collecting and deconstructing images and then recombining them, the artist proposes new forms of contemporary sculpture, prompting renewed reflection on the essence and meaning of sculpture beyond the narrative of photographic fragments (FRAGMENT) and toward sculpture (SCULPTURE) itself.

Just as fractures emerge when heterogeneous materials are combined in painting, all media come to challenge traditional norms and seek new possibilities through collision. The artist’s attempt to juxtapose photographs and reinterpret them within a sculptural context symbolically demonstrates this shift in flow. Recently, he has focused on the act of removing parts—creating “holes”—within the spatiality of sculpture.

In the exhibition “Surging and Swirling Beyond the Ridgeline,” the artist goes beyond the physical materiality of sculpture to encompass the space behind it, presenting a transformative perspective in which the background itself becomes part of the sculpture. Through a process of abstracting temporality, he explores the expanded possibilities of sculpture as a genre.

By contemplating the background revealed beyond the holes of the sculpture and engaging with the unfamiliar sensations evoked by juxtaposed images, the audience is invited to experience the works anew.

References

• 《Surging and swirling beyond the ridgeline》