김세진, 〈잠자는 태양_프롤로그〉, 2012, 가변채널 HD비디오, 00:38 ©김세진

Artist Note

The so-called “advanced” developed nations, once seen as the future model for developing countries, have moved the currents of the world for centuries under the names of great powers or empires. Although formerly colonized and impoverished countries may have freed themselves from physical constraints, under the tide of neoliberalism, they continue to repeat new forms of colonial behavior.

 As the trajectories of migration and movement increase—from East to West, from South to North—the layers of life experience collide with one another, generating increasingly dissonant harmonics.

In Proximity of Longing, I aim to reconstruct the psychological landscape shaped by such temporal layers—formed over years of direct and indirect encounters with the complexities of lived time, the unpredictable futures of modern society, and the discarded past that resurrects itself in the present. These reconstructions are built upon the narrative structure of the science fiction genre.

Through a trilogy of video works and OHP (overhead projector) drawings, I attempt to visualize the “emptiness,” “futility,” and the symptoms of “excess” and “speed” embedded in utopian urban ideals—alongside the “desolation,” “ruin,” and “lack” that exist behind these façades.

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