Humans will eventually come to realize their own disappearance after handing over their power and right of decision to technology. Technology has changed not only photographic images, but also people Technology continues to renew itself, overcoming its limitations and prompts 'dehumanization' of the world.

The digitalization of images can even disprove the reality of the present world. Today, images cannot support the existence of the original scene or an event. This shift is more dramatic than the loss of tactility in early photographic images. As photography has turned from analogue technology to the digital, images are prone to change and lose their presence. The recent history of images can be compared with the trace of photography, the first medium of art creating images by mechanical means.

Jean Baudrillard said that today’s images can represent the most obscure relationships between the real, its disappearance and people. Sartre, in his philosophy of existentialism, raises the question “Am I really a man who has the right to act in such a manner that humanity regulates itself by what I do?” This exhibition seeks to find an answer. In this non-existent condition of being, there cannot be something spiritual indwelling in one’s soul cannot sustain. Such loss of territory reveals the situation where there is no substance or body of human existence. The current world, similarly regulated by techne, is different from Huxley’s imagination in that now the governing system is composed in a “non-existent” manner: the concept of territory has been faded. In his novel, Huxley imaged a future world controlled by “one” system that adopts highly developed scientific technologies. Here, the dignity and moral values of being humans are lost.

In the future it describes, people become enslaved by science and technologies of their own creation. Inspired by Aldous Huxley’s dystopian novel Brave New World (1932), this show brings our attention to future societies where advanced science technologies are used to produce artificial human lives. 2018 Seoul Photo Festival is held from Novemto February 10, 2019.

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