Photographer Yisak Choi

Changes in cities and nature as human being

                                                                                                   Lee Seunghoon. (Art criticism)

The exhibition, which begins with the proposition There After, displays unique photographic works. This photographic work consists of three cuts taken with a time difference in the same place, and it can be seen that the frames manufactured by light panels are arranged in chronological order. The artist says that he saw a place in the city where he usually visited turning into ruins as redevelopment progressed at some point, where he filmed changes in the plants and surrounding environment that he discovered newly. What he captured in his photos was the tracking and observation of some places in the redevelopment area due to the three seasonal changes of late autumn, winter, and spring, and his photography is a record of these things.
It seems to have been the primary motivation for the artist to do this work when he discovered that a place in the city, which he thought was a familiar daily life because it was a place he usually went to, gradually changed to a place like ruins for some external reason. However, in line with these changes in the urban environment, the artist seems to have changed his work plan to connect the changes of the city and the changes of time as the season goes from autumn to winter and the plants around him dry and wither together. However, as the years changed, the artist not only saw the sight of plants withering and withering, but also saw a completely different direction of growing back with vitality in a place where plants seemed to wither and die. At this point, it seems that the artist began to think about the meaning of the change in the city, not the change in the city.
Therefore, the artist seems to have worked to prepare for artificial changes in the city and changes created by the vitality of nature so that they can be discovered over time. In fact, a city is a place where if humans do not intervene artificially, it will inevitably be under changes in nature such as weathering, but when humans intervene, the changes will proceed in a rapid way, develop certain places, but also create ruins. However, on the contrary, nature is a place full of signs that clearly show the direction in which life is progressing, although it is in a minute change that cannot be felt in a short time. Unlike artificial things, nature controls itself according to the surrounding environment over time, and at some point again, it becomes a place to emit the inherent energy of life to the outside and reveal its latent vitality.
Isaac's work shows that humans can think of nature as changing everything in the world we live in as they intend, but nevertheless, nature and life living there eventually go on a path of change set by the passage of time and its own laws. Human beings can be said to be the subject of artificial change in the world they live in, but at the same time, when contrasting with nature, humans are objects that have no choice but to follow the flow of nature and humans are also part of nature. In that sense, Isaac can say that in his work, he is preparing for artificial changes in humans and changes over time in nature, but as a result, it shows that all of this is bound to be part of the changes inherent in nature. It is implied through work that humans artificially make a lot of changes, but in the end, they must follow the laws of nature and the laws of time.