The artist talk of NOH Suntag is relation to his solo exhibition, The 4th Wall: The State of Emergency II, will take place on 15 June, Thursday, 4 pm at art Hall, Art Sonje Center.

We live today in a society where people press the shutter on their camera more often in a day than they lift their spoon to eat. As a field in its infancy in terms of the history of representation, how has photography achieved such monstrous power? What can the photograph say in scenes of conflict and clashing? Whose side will it fall on? How will it be used? More and more, the photograph is becoming a piercing presence in such scenes — although what “scene” means for the photograph is becoming more and more unclear.

About the Artist

NOH Suntag has worked as a writer while using photography to capture the landscapes of the functioning/malfunctioning contemporary South Korean society spawned by national division. He is a recipient of the Donggang Photography Award (2012), the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art’s Artist of the Year Award (2014), and the Gu Bon-ju Art Prize (2016).