스킵네비게이션

SATA has concentrated mainly on the creation of surrealistic and phantasmal images by combining the photographic images of the past memories of his own and the images collected from the internet. In most of his early works the use of intense colors and narratives agitates the boundary between the conscious and the unconscious and his novel imagination permits the free combination of images. Having expanding the scope of his artistic activity through the website on the internet, SATA forces the viewers to re‐encounter their wide range of memories such as personal experiences, dreams and imaginations by breaking into the layers of the unconscious through images in which logic and time‐space collapse. His ‘SaTARLIT’ Series included in this biennale consists not only of photographic images but also of video images, and in the respect that the use of colors is abandoned, it seemingly has some external differences from his ordinary works. Yet that he unfolds what he captured in the manner of surrealism on the basis of his own peculiar sensibility tells that this series is to some extent on the continuum of his previous works. SATA imagines his own microcosm as he is given up to his own world, drifts in and out of the conscious and the unconscious and runs into stop‐time and infinite space under the streetlamp at the empty parking lot of a park near a subway station at which he got off unintentionally in some evening. All alone in a dark and empty space, he is in an unstable pose as if he was freed from gravity. The flickers of light are drifting about with no fixed direction. Those unstable movements of SATA himself and the floating lights which are not programmed to make regular repetitions invite the viewers to the curious psychological variations and expanded consciousnesses that are created by the encounter between the individual conscious and the time‐spaces of different dimensions and to imaginary worlds.