‘New Structure’ series by Gwon Osang explores a renewed relationship between image and structure, extending beyond the use of photographic imagery as a surface element so that the image itself functions as a structural component. The artist enlarges images of collected objects and produces them as flat elements, then attaches them to aluminum or wooden plates and arranges them so that they interlock, forming standing structures. Through this process, image and structure become inseparable within a single sculptural form, allowing flat images to establish new spatial relationships within a three-dimensional framework.
 
This series is particularly influenced by Alexander Calder’s ‘Stabile’. Like the ‘Stabile’, a sheet-metal structure formed by welding curved flat metal plates into a standing configuration, the ‘New Structure’ series also adopts a method in which planar elements combine to produce a three-dimensional structure. However, instead of metal plates, Gwon Osang employs plates bearing enlarged images as structural elements, prompting a reconsideration of the relationship between sculptural structure and image.
 
Rather than adhering to a specific narrative or purpose, Gwon allowed his process to be autonomous and unconscious, focusing primarily on aesthetic judgment in shaping the forms. The space created by ‘New Structure’, though devoid of a specific narrative, possesses the unique spatiality and theatricality of sculpture, enabling it to generate and convey events through its presence alone.
 
As a result, the space created by the ‘New Structure’ series possesses the capacity to generate events and scenes through the spatiality and theatricality inherent to sculpture, even in the absence of an explicit narrative. Through the interlocking of flat images and three-dimensional structures, the series expands sculpture from an art of material mass into a sculptural language in which image and structure are integrated, exploring new possibilities for the role of images in contemporary sculpture.