Kyungwoo Chun - works : B. Knaus Fine Art

Face of Face
Most Beautiful
Pseudonym
Interpreters
BreaThings
Believing is Seeing
Thousands
In/finite
Family Portrait
reMEMBERed

The Weight
Pre Sense
Nine Editors
Simultan
Versus
Being a Queen
Individual Works
Light Calligraphy
A Day in Seoul: Unknown
1 Hour Portrait

Family Portrait

For his series "Family Portrait" (2003), Kyungwoo Chun invited eight different families from Bremen to his studio, where he installed a single chair and a camera. He asked all the family members about their age and added up their lifetimes. This then resulted in the duration of the respective performance and thus also the exposure time of the family portraits in minutes. The exposure time was again staggered according to the age of each individual: A 36-year-old father sat in front of the camera for 36 minutes, while the portrait time for the 3-year-old son was only 3 minutes. From these shots of all the family members, Chun created a single photo as a family portrait, in which not only movements during the long exposure time but also the different people are superimposed to form an overall image. More