Anxiety ON OFF (2023) consists of five series : The Reconstruction of the Climax (2011) reveal the illusion of weapons through photographs of real weapons. Romantic Soldiers (2011) and Frozen Objects (2015) describe childhood imagination with toy weapons and soldiers. Lastly, The Rehearsal of Anxiety (2016-2018) represents tragic meta-fictional scenes enacted by 109 participants. Simulation of Tragedy (2016) is a series of photographs that faithfully capture reality. The pictures are not staged or fabricated but portray a simulation of disaster.
The image of war I had as a child, whether fictitious or real, was a combination of dramatic scenes released by mass media. War scenes, which depict human violence and tragedy, have similar plots to real-life stories, movies, and games. In my tragic narratives, victims, enemies, soldiers, heroes, and various weapons all appear together. As I grew older, these images changed. The tragedies of individual victims disappeared from the images, only expressed through numbers to indicate the scale of the disaster. The portrayal of weapons became more spectacular. Words like superpowers, ultra-precision, high performance, cutting edge of artificial intelligence, and unmanned systems, which describe the latest weapons in the media, are too unrealistic for me. I see the irony of popular culture that shares social violence and the resulting tragedy. My intention is to express the psychological conflict and contradictory perception between inner anxiety and insensitivity.