Green House, furniture, paint, wire, 2009



Kyung Woo Han creates  an illusion of a room half-filled with water by painting and creating mirrored images and hanging them mid-way in the room. Watch the video to see the artist weave his way past the furniture and remove one of them to fully appreciate this marvel of an illusion.




"All the facts are relevant. People see what they want to see. One fact can be interpreted in several ways depend on our perceptions. In the opposite, two different facts can be looked the same. My work deals with perception and illusions. Everything we see or what we know is not absolute. I suggest various ways to perceive things with slightly different perspectives. The image that is captured in the video camera is very narrow and direct. The information that is given to us is limited. It is impossible to see beyond the rectangular frame. I’m using this weak point as a crucial system of my work."



Black Chair & White Object, live video instalation, mixed media, size varies, 2007




Kyung Woo Han was born in Seoul Korea. He has graduated from Seoul National University with a BFA in sculpture and has MFA in Film,Video and New Media at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Kyung Woo Han