PRACTICE OF TRANSLUCENT
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TACT - 2F, 35 yunboseon-gil, Jongno District, Seoul, South Korea
Curated by TACT
2025
권솔(Sol Kwon)
2025.12.06 - 12.14 (12:00 - 17:00)
서울시 종로구 윤보선길 35, 2층 TACT
About the Work
Initiated in New York in early 2025, the project Practice of Transparency placed natural and manmade objects side by side to compare their inherent visual structures. Organic forms—such as oyster mushrooms—revealed their interiors through light and shape, offering a clarity that aligned with the act of “seeing things as they are.” Yet during this exploration, a particular translucent window in Manhattan drew my attention. It revealed a different register of vision—one that cannot be captured by sharpness alone. Expanding upon that discovery, Practice of Translucent shifts the gaze from clarity to blur.
To reconsider the familiar landscape of Seoul, I reorganized what is seen clearly and what is overlooked. Urban structures such as street trees and the Han River bridges become points of comparison: nature is captured sharply, while artificial elements remain translucent. This project adopts various modes of observation like : purposeful blurring, noticing unseen gaps, and looking toward the unknown. It examines sensitivity revealed at the edge of perception —the structures that emerge as information diminishes, and the ambiguity that invites interpretation. Rather than using blur as a mere aesthetic effect, the work disrupts a clarity-centric visual system to reveal new perceptual and conceptual layers.
The notion of the translucent may be one of the most intentional visual inventions created by humans. Our vision depends on constant refocusing within limited sight; what falls out of focus becomes blurred, yet still registers unconsciously and shapes our perception. Photography, a medium born from the desire to emulate human sight, can freely capture and fix this in-between state. The deliberate manipulation of focus to create an image that invites viewers to imagine what lies beyond—this process feels both human and adventurous.
Ultimately, Practice of Translucent asks us to reconsider the act of seeing itself: how clarity can hinder discovery, and how blur can reveal a world we have always sensed but rarely noticed.
〈Practice of Translucent〉는 단순히 흐림을 미적 효과로 사용하는 것 이 아니라, 선명함 중심의 시각 체계에 균열을 내고, 새로운 감각적·사유적 층위를 발견하는 과정이다. ‘반투명’이라는 개념은 어쩌면 인간이 만든 인공물 중 가장 의도가 분명한 표현일지도 모르겠다. 인간의 시각 체계는 한정된 시야 안에서 초점을 연속적으로 이동시키며 매끄러운 인지를 가능하게 한다. 흥미로운 점은 초점 밖의 사물들이 흐려져 보이지만, 흐릿함 또한 무의식의 층위에서 인지되어 우리의 삶에 영향을 준다는 사실이다. 무의식적 흐림을 끌어내어 투명도와 불투명 사이의 중간 성질을 만들어낸 인간의 시도는 매우 매력적이다. 특히 인간의 시각을 모방해 탄생한 카메라가 반투명의 영역을 자유롭게 포착하고 이미지로 고정할 수 있다는 점이 더욱 흥미롭다. 초점을 의도적으로 조작해 반투명의 이미지를 만들고, 이를 통해 그 너머의 존재를 상상하게 하는 흐름은 인간적이면서도 모험적이라고 느껴졌다.
