Kumimono - Limited Edition of 7 Photograph

Vak Dongkyun (b.1992) is an image producer based in Seoul, South Korea. His work has been displayed in numerous group exhibitions in South Korea, including at Seoul Museum of Art, the Asia Culture Center, and the Platform-L Contemporary Art Center. In March 2019, his first solo exhibition—«Universal Universe»—was presented at Archive Bomm in Seoul. In the same year, he took part in the group exhibition «Closer When Apart» in Ottawa, which was curated by Korea National University of Arts in cooperation with the Korean Cultural Centre Canada. He studied painting for three years at Korea National University of Art in Seoul, before discovering photography during a stay abroad at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts in Paris in 2015. While he had worked with photographs previously, he had used them merely as templates for his realistic paintings. The efficiency of the camera as a medium ultimately prompted him to switch to photography «so as to be able to produce images of objects that are as objective as possible,» says Vak. He taught himself the technique. He has BFA and MFA degree in Fine Arts from Korea National University of Arts in Seoul. Working mainly within still life, Vak observes a particularly technological object using various image production methods including document, direction, and computer generation to explore the morphological narrative of subject. His multidisciplinary subjects and their intensive reproduction have won him acclaim with A New Gaze 3 - Vontobel Contemporary Photography Prize in 2019 and Mirae Artist Award in 2017.