Kim Taedong graduated from Chung-Ang University’s Department of Photography (2007) and obtained a Master’s Degree in Photography from the same graduate school (2013).
The
Amado Photography Award is an international photography open call targeting
artists under the age of 40 of Korean and Asian nationalities. Established as
both an award and an exhibition, it seeks to focus on the specificity and
expansiveness of photography as a medium within the broader field of
contemporary visual art.
Through this award, Amado Art Space has supported a
total of nine artists/teams—Hyunmoo Lee, Cho Junyong, Chang Sungeun, Eun Chun,
Kyoung Jae Cho, Kim Taedong, Shinwook Kim, CO/EX, and Kim Dongjun—over nine
editions from 2014 to 2022, all of whom have explored and experimented with the
expanded possibilities of the medium.
《World-stasis》 examines, on the occasion of the award’s 10th edition, a particular
field that has been shaped—expanded and delimited—around photography within the
broader constellation of contemporary visual art. It approaches this inquiry
through the imagined technology of the “stasis field,” a concept often
appearing in science fiction.
To this end, the exhibition brings together
selected earlier works from the nine award-winning artists/teams—specifically
drawn from the moment of their selection—alongside fragments of their current
practices that have formed in (dis)continuous relation to those earlier works.
These are presented across nine rooms within Amado Art Space.
This
exhibition symbolically encloses the time of the Amado Photography Award within
a stasis field, marking its 10th edition as a point of suspension. Within this
field, time appears not merely delayed but ultimately brought to a standstill.
Yet, as with the nature of time inside a stasis field, the temporality of this
system is in fact neither fixed nor halted; rather, it is held in suspension
and appears static only because it has been infinitely expanded.
