Choi Byung-So experimented with languages and concepts of art in various ways, leaving behind a record of prototype series and their outcomes that encompassed video, photography, and installation. In the 1980s, Choi lost most of his extant artworks when his studio in Daegu flooded. Untitled 9750000-2 is one of only two works of photography from the 1970s that have survived until the present day. This work comprises four photographs of an identical chair, each with words written in alphabet characters that indicates the name of an object that is placed on the chair. By transferring visual and linguistic signifiers, each photograph assumes the essence of its respective alphabet characters, generating an odd sense of distance. In a way, the image and its verbal complement may seem unfamiliar due to the disjunction that results when written language that converts recognizable objects into text recognized according to form rather than meaning.
