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Hyun-Ah Cho

MA work

MA work

My work explores and exaggerates the thin and delicate line between fiction and reality where our notion of what is real becomes ungraspable. Nature has become an artefact like a museum. The representation of collected plants and their arrangement for display within controlled man-made environments have become a diorama, a space of in-between, where our notion of what is the real is constantly shifting. I believe that the medium of photography is in-between a represented reality and representing a new reality, and my work expresses a place that is neither fabricated fiction nor an accepted reality grounded on firm foundations.

Info

Info

  • MA Degree

    School

    School of Humanities

    Programme

    MA Photography, 2007

  • My work explores and exaggerates the thin and delicate line between fiction and reality where our notion of what is real becomes ungraspable. Nature has become an artefact like a museum. The representation of collected plants and their arrangement for display within controlled man-made environments have become a diorama, a space of in-between, where our notion of what is the real is constantly shifting. I believe that the medium of photography is in-between a represented reality and representing a new reality, and my work expresses a place that is neither fabricated fiction nor an accepted reality grounded on firm foundations.

  • Experience

  • Gallery Interpreter, Tate Modern, London, 2002-present; The Gallery Education Training Course (Artist Educator Trainee), Tate Modern & Tate Britan, London, 2006; Gallery Intern, The Drawing Center, NYC, USA, 1998
  • Exhibitions

  • RCA Secret, Royal College of Art, London, 2006; SEFF (Seoul Experimental Film Festival), Seoul Art Cinema Space Cell, Seoul, Korea, 2004; 601 Artbook Project, 601 Bisang Gallery, Seoul, Korea, 2004; The Summer Exhibition, West Dean College, Chichester, West Sussex, 2003
  • Awards

  • Shortlisted, Bloomberg New Contemporaries, 2006; Finalist, SEFF (Seoul Experimental Film Festival), 2004