Show Your Tongue
Seoungho Cho US, KR, 2005, 6', SD video
The water's surface, as it were, forms the first layer of this work by Seoungho Cho. We see it from above and from close by. It moves in tiny ripples and is deep blue in colour. Just as thin and lively as this graceful membrane is the sound, which is present as a second layer. With now and then a sonorous tone and a soft tick, it is hardly distinguishable from the water. Then we slowly begin to perceive the monsters that are living beneath the skin. Their scales and fins slither closely past each other, their gaping mouths snap upwards through the surface of the water. Cho subtly but effectively manipulates the images of these beasts into a living pattern of forms and motives that overflow into each other and are covered by a watery layer of shiny icing. In this way, he weaves a transparent structure between the two dimensions of the image surface; a fabric which builds itself up, layer by layer, and which could keep on growing in your imagination until it even consumes the camera lenses and filters, the film that records the image, and the viewer's retina.
Sat 23/9 Kino SC 18:30
