Wolfgang Tillmans Of My World (Editorial)

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WOLFGANG TILLMANS OF MY WORLD

Seoul To Berlin

2021, 100 x 200 mm, Eng.

Digital print on the paper

(Author Introduction)

Wolfgang Tillmans (born 16 August, 1968) is a German photographer. His diverse body of work is distinguished by observation of his surroundings and an ongoing investigation of the photographic medium’s foundations.

Tillmans was the first photographer – and also the first non-British person – to be awarded the Tate annual Turner Prize. He has also been awarded the Hasselblad Award, the Royal Photographic Society's Centenary Medal, the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition's Charles Wollaston Award, The Culture Prize of the German Society for Photography, and is an Academician of the Royal Academy of Arts, London. Tillmans lives in Berlin and London.

(Foreword)

'Wolfgang Tillmans Of My World' is a result of the trend of the untact* era, resulting from the prolonged spread of COVID-19. In 2021, Wolfgang Tillmans' exhibition takes place in the UK, so I can't go see his actual work.

However, it can be seen in the form of data. I wondered what the difference would be between seeing his work in real life and seeing it in data form. The advantage of the data form is that I can manipulate his work more freely.

How am I taking his work. I'm trying to create an effect that's likely to happen in my head. It uses the Scanner (EPSON Perfection V39)** as a tool for reprocessing.

Rather than simply reprocessing the form of data, the work is carried out to print works of data into physical forms and to create them into data forms through scanner again.

During the scanning, I add physical effects. Because of my actions, my presence in his work creates a new balance.