Adoration of the boy

September-November, 2009

“Nederlands 2 ” exhibition

museumgoudA

Gouda, the Netherlands

The exhibition space is a former chapel with old christianity paintings. This exhibition has a theme "Television". By using the frame which I made with a mass-producted daily materials coloured gold, I wanted to make an illusion of a heroic boy in present days. This frame stands itself in the middle of the space with a naked appearance of the back. In the frame, I install an image of a boy drawn on a transparent plastic sheet which has been used for the TV animation. The boy looks very much suffering; crying and escaping. We can not see his back ground and his drama but surrounded by the specific frame. I consider it as an icon of the present days which is more abstract reason why to cry than the reason of the crying boy in the christianity paintings. My installation must confront of illusions of ' real treasures' of museum, and its values and qualities.