In the works collected here, the artist focuses on information and images that continue to be piled up in our daily life via a variety of media, and expresses how they are changed within his mind, and how his consciousness responds to them. He finds that the images, symbols, and signs we face every day.
We are continuously exposed to various forms of media in our daily lives. Those media, whether we like it or not, try to deliver some information to us. And we are extremely vulnerable to them. Moon points out that those images, symbols, and signs we are exposed to become our routine. Those endless chains of information affect our subconsciousness by implanting in our minds values, or even preferences, in a gradual but very powerful manner. Here, he tries to help us realize how ironically we are controlled by the very form of system (images, symbols, and signs) we created.
In this piece of work, which is part of a series of works titled Unknown Cities, begun in 2001, he deprives the city of the means of information-delivering devices, virtually leaving the city empty. Moon imagines how the absence of the system would affect people’s lives, their decision-making, and their values. Then, Moon throws a question to us: Would the absence of the system truly free our minds from making preconceived decisions? Or would it rather lead us to chaos?
Untitled, 2002. digital photography. 250 × 450 cm. Courtesy of the artist
