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Yeondoo Jung, video artist

Documentary Nostalgia, 2007

Description

Maker

  • Yeondoo Jung, b. 1969, Korean, video artist

Title

Documentary Nostalgia

Year

2007

Medium

LCD monitor with wood frame, hard drive with high definition video; color, silent

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • video,
  • Digital Betacam (TM)

Supports

  • hard drive

Dimensions

119.4 cm (47 inches) (height) monitor--measured on the diagnal

Signature / Inscription / Marks

label on case: Documentary Nostalgia edition 3/6 Yeondoo Jung / same label contents on tape

Identification

Edition

3/6

Type

  • Time-based Media

Credit

Helen M. Danforth Acquisition Fund

Object Number

2008.23

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Nature/Artifice

April 25, 2009 - February 28, 2010

Yeondoo Jung’s Documentary Nostalgia features a succession of typical movie sets—a living room interior, the street, and several idyllic landscapes—in which reconstructions of episodes from the artist’s past take place. The video is shot in a single long take by a static camera, capturing not only the performed action, but also the work “behind the scenes”—the laborious transformation of sets by workers in orange overalls. Unrealistically bright colors, unnatural light and shadows, and simplistic props further reveal the reconstructions’ artificiality, suggesting how reality and fiction are always closely intertwined in both our memories and in the artistic depiction of the world around us.

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