ENTRY DESCRIPTION
We learn through experience that objects from the past don't retain fixed meanings in the present. "Day and Night" seeks to reveal the disparity between tangible reality and its photographic representation by selecting familiar locations—places that everyone knows—in order to underscore this point. In the realm of photography, light not only creates images but also sets the mood of a photograph's surface. "Day and Night" captures both natural light of the day (instantaneous) and artificial light of the night (long-exposure) in a double exposure on a single frame of black-and-white film, allowing day and night, which cannot be experienced simultaneously in reality, to overlap. We wanted to demonstrate that time, compressed within a single photograph, coexists in a state of momentary and sustained existence. Paradoxically, a still image extracted from the flow of time lacks temporality strictly speaking. However, the temporality in a photograph could be attributed to the tangible traces left by the subject and the record of the photographer's specific moment in life, perhaps through their individual perception of time. "Day and Night" aims to provoke thoughts on time through two perspectives visualized by a camera, which are invisible to the naked eye. Therefore, it is hoped that through light and temporality, the work will act as a catalyst not for the subject matter or meaning but for the emotions of the viewer.

AUTHOR
O Jaewoong, born and raised in Seoul, South Korea, has been working in Tokyo, Japan since 2008. He earned a Ph.D. from the Graduate School of Intermedia Art, Tokyo University of the Arts, and his research and work have been focused on photographic systems and temporality.

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