BJ YOON's PHOTOGRAPHY

Agency of Light (Diptych)

Analogue and Digital C-type Prints | 50.8cm x 60.1cm Each | 2013

I

As Buddhist Heart Sutra taught, 

‘nothing’ is not different from ‘thing’; 

form is indeed voidness and vice versa 

(“rūpaṃ śūnyatā śūnyataiva rūpaṃ”). 

Each diptych of this series, consisting of 

a photograph and a photogram of a dolour composition 

created with simultaneous exposure, 

is a photographic contemplation on 

‘being’ and ‘nothingness’.

II

Colour is always affiliated to the ‘things’, 

but it does not belong to them. 

It is not substantial quality, 

but a variable, unfixable or temporal property of light. 

Thus, what is the colour, then? 

If even a transparent material can have a colour, 

what is colour? 

Is colour a ‘thing’?

Does a colour have a shadow? 

Moreover, colours are always changing 

according to the intensity, the angle, 

the shape or the temperature of light. 

Colour is an intractable 

yet enthralling and intoxicating phenomena of light.

III

These diptychs are unique because of the picture of shadow, 

rather than the picture of ‘thing itself’. 

The photograph on the right side of each diptych is restrained 

with its paired photogram. 

Without their paired photograms, 

the photographs cannot convey their meanings. 

Thus, authenticity and reproducibility, 

primary colours and complementary colours, 

or eventually things and shadows are intermingled each other, 

by virtue of the agency of light. 

오늘따라 늘 걷던 그 길이 멀어보일 

때, 

오늘따라 늘 지나던 그 곳이

넓                   어                   보                   일 

때,

월요일입니다, 
모두 무사하게 건너오셨는지요?

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여의도, 서울, 2010 | Ilford DELTA 100

추락을 두려워 한다면 날 수 없는 걸까요

우리는

길을 떠나게 하는 것은

열정이거나 불확실한 충동,

혹은 분노와 절망

하지만 목적지에 다다르는 것은

끈기와 인내가 필요한 법, 

그곳이 어디든

이 길의 끝에서 만나기를,

쉬더라도 아주 멈추지는 말고,

꿋꿋하게

・

강원, 2015