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StrAnge Ball

NOH Suntag2005-2006/2007

National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea

National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea
Seoul, South Korea

Noh Sun-tag(1971-) is a writer who records the political and social context of Korean society in the form of a documentary photograph. He has been working to track the division of Korea and the meaning of political violence resulting from it for several years, and records the special situation of division from an objective perspective with daily life.
The white ball appearing in StrAnge Ball (2006) is Radome, a military installation of Camp Humphrey, a U.S. air base located in Daifuri Hirasawa. The Radome is a radar antenna cover installed to accurately attack fighter jets, a military facility that provides extensive and useful information for accurate bombing in South Korea. Noh Seung-taek captures the radome from various directions in his work, but it has been altered into various shapes such as golf balls and moonlight, and is cleverly disguised. In the end, the radome, which is played in the 10 photos, occupies the center of Daechu-ri and watches over the lives of the residents in their daily lives. In this way, Noh Sun-tag metaphorically expresses the reality of Korean society hidden in the nature and daily lives of Daechu-ri residents through a StrAnge Ball that he recorded while observing Daechu-ri for three years.

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  • Title: StrAnge Ball
  • Creator: NOH Suntag
  • Date Created: 2005-2006/2007
  • Location Created: MMCA (National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea)
  • Physical Dimensions: 50.6×76.6×(10)cm
  • Rights: MMCA (National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea)
  • Medium: Pigment print
National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea

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