Forgetting Machines #Yang Heetae

Noh, Suntag and 노순택2006/2011

Victims of Gwangju Massacre in 1980

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Title: Forgetting Machines #Yang Heetae
Creator: Noh, Suntag, 노순택
Creator Lifespan: 1971
Creator Nationality: Korean
Creator Birth Place: Seoul, Korea
Date Created: 2006/2011
Physical Dimensions: w1000 x h1400 cm
Type: Photography
Medium: Pigment print
Critic's Note: Noh Suntag explores the way in which the Korean War survives and impacts Korean society. He looks intently at the gap in the ‘power of division’ that oftentimes misinterprets events to its own advantage. The power of division is a monster operating and malfunctioning in both South and North Korea. Taking all the oozing fluids from that monster - spit and thick blood, madness and silence, benefit and damage, bursts of laughter and cynical smiles - in the form of image and words, he lets them slide by. Representing the disruptive conditions sustaining that monster, he tries to reveal the politics of today.
Collection: The May 18 Memorial Foundation
Artist's Education: Konkuk University. Seoul, Korea. B.A., Political Science.

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