Kim, In Tae

Montage

 

By Kim In Tae, June, 5, 2017

 

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  The origin of the word “montage” comes from the French ‘monter’ (to mount) and is often used as a cinematic term referring to the process or technique of piecing together separate sections of film to form a continuous whole.

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  Going beyond this meaning of ‘monter,’ I selected an object (e.g., the butterfly) and gathered many of them to create a reinterpretation of another object, like the Jaguar or Hippo.

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  While viewing my work, you can see that the entire shape is repeated over and over to create a new outline. This repetition of one object to build another object constructs a complex and strange new illusion or perhaps, birth of a life in another dimension.

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  The butterflies that make up the sculptures’ surface create the illusion as if they just flew towards us or will soon fly away from us. Also, the exceptionally light-sensitive butterflies guide the humans captivated by desire to utopia at the end of the world.