Creating a new take on portraits, South Korea artist
Seung-Hwan Oh uses a combination of biology and art to produce the work in his series “Impermanence”. Best described on his website, Oh’s artistic process “exposes his practice to Science. As a microbiologist, he cultivates fungus that he applies to his film. Through this process, the microorganisms slowly devour the film. The artist proposes a depletion of an image. The intended result is what appears through disappearance”. Each piece takes on a life of it’s own through the scientific manipulation that is applied to it, which is apparent through the fluidity of the areas that the microorganisms affected the most. The resulting compositions are both hauntingly beautiful and conceptually original.
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SeungHwan Oh,
JUXTAPOX,
illusion,
WOOSH
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