Dahoon Nam has pursued a practice that reinterprets a wide range of media through his own perspective, using replication as a primary method—from small and large Styrofoam fragments to computer graphics. By recreating phenomena and objects close to our everyday lives with lightweight materials such as Styrofoam, cardboard boxes, and paper, the artist conveys the structural contradictions of contemporary society in a humorous manner.
 
The artist selects his subjects for replication based on social phenomena unfolding within his own surroundings and on events he has directly experienced. These subjects range widely, from Usadan-ro in Yongsan, Seoul—an area threatened by gentrification—to Jeff Koons’s ‘Balloon Dog’ and the diverse memes circulating on social media.
 
Nam’s practice of replication goes beyond mere reproduction, constituting an attempt to question the status of the “real” and to explore the subversive potential inherent in the “fake.” In a rapidly changing contemporary society driven by values such as efficiency, innovation, and progress, the artist prompts us to reconsider what has been given to us—and to re-recognize what we may be overlooking—through fakes that closely resemble reality.