René Descartes viewed as beautiful the order and coherency of structures designed by a single architect; the purpose of the ARCHISCULPTURE Photo Project, however, is to create architectural sculptures by collaging photographs of diverse architectures from various architects. Therefore, ARCHISCULPTURE is both similar and different to the organic romanticism of ancient cities built through the works of numerous architects, for they represent the artist’s subjective interpretation and selection regarding various architects’ numerous designs. If there is the ‘punctum’ in photography then clearly architectures used here will in a certain way be the artist’s ‘punctum’ and their assemblage will be the ARCHISCULPTURE. This work may also locate and bring together structures with political, economic, or social significance, so viewers may feel the illusion of a metropolis through the ‘studium’. Like collectors who arrange and classify their acquisitions with great care, the artist analyses selected city fragments gathered from here and there and creates sculptures with them. At this time, collaged architectures in the work are reborn as one beautiful sculpture retaining architectures’ diachronic or synchronic histories or encompassing all. As Russian film director Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein explained in relation to the montage technique, meanings that did not exist in each scene are newly created in the edited and interconnected whole. The collaging employed in the process of making ARCHISCULPTURE also creates new meanings that have not been read in individual architectures while combining multiple buildings. However, in any case, if we look at the work as it is, this work is a non-existent sculpture work with an architectural appearance, and the photograph that seems to have taken it is ARCHISCULPTURE.
ARCHISCULPTURE 001(London, UK), 2010. Archival Pigment Print, 100x100cm or 30x30cm
ARCHISCULPTURE 002(London, UK), 2010. Archival Pigment Print, 50x50cm
ARCHISCULPTURE 003(London, UK), 2010. Archival Pigment Print, 50x50cm
ARCHISCULPTURE 004, 2011. Archival Pigment Print, 50x50cm, Edition size 5
ARCHISCULPTURE 006, 2011. Archival Pigment Print, 50x50cm
ARCHISCULPTURE 007, 2011. Archival Pigment Print, 50x50cm
ARCHISCULPTURE 008, 2012. Archival Pigment Print, 100×70 or 171x120cm, Edition size 5
ARCHISCULPTURE 009, 2012. Archival Pigment Print, 100×70 or 171x120cm, Edition size 5
ARCHISCULPTURE 010, 2012. Archival Pigment Print, 70×100 or 120x171cm, Edition size 5
ARCHISCULPTURE 011, 2012. Archival Pigment Print, 100×70 or 171x120cm, Edition size 5
ARCHISCULPTURE 012, 2012. Archival Pigment Print, 100×53 or 171x91cm, Edition size 5
ARCHISCULPTURE 013(London, UK), 2012. Archival Pigment Print, 100×70 or 171x120cm, Edition size 5
ARCHISCULPTURE 014(Edinburgh, Scotland), 2013. Archival Pigment Print, (46x25cm-edition of 155) or (135x73cm-unique), total edition size 156
ARCHISCULPTURE 015, 2013. Archival Pigment Print, 70×100 or 120x171cm, Edition size 5
ARCHISCULPTURE 016, 2013. Archival Pigment Print, 100×70 or 171x120cm, Edition size 5
ARCHISCULPTURE 017(Shanghai, China), 2013. Archival Pigment Print, 100×70 or 171x120cm, Edition size 5
ARCHISCULPTURE 018(Gyeongbok Palace), 2013. Archival Pigment Print, 100×38 or 171x65cm, Edition size 5