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Jayoung Ku, <Red, Green, and Blue>

Digital camera, UHD monitor, Computer, Custom software, 90 X 152cm, 2013

  • Jayoung Ku explores the boundaries between past and present, reality and illusion, focusing on the notion that these are not independently existing concepts but rather part of a continuous flow.

  • In the In the Window II(1999), the artist records himself leaving through a window and projects this onto the actual location.

  • He then films herself repeating the same actions over the projection, layering the past within a single space.

  • His body, the original and real entity, blurs the boundary between reality and illusion within the video, where multiple timeframes are compressed.

  • Red, Green, and Blue (2013) unravels these layers of time built up in the In the Window II.

  • The work recognizes the viewer in real-time, dividing their image into red, green, and blue layers that follow movements with slight time delays.

  • Each layer flows continuously in its own temporal frame until it ultimately converges with the viewer's present image.