Artist Statement

Mediaselect programme

1978, 13′, colour, silent

It would not be too much to say that an artist’s self-referential perspective, which is the origin of all artistic perception, is concentrated in the selfportrait. Each person’s life and death is limited by time. Within these limits, in the momentary artistic consciousness, the artist’s whole way of thought is captured in a microcosm of a lifetime’s achievement, compressed and self-represented as a self-portrait.

1979 The 11th International Open Encounter on Video, London, England
1982 Exhibition “Selfportraits in Modern Japan”, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art
1988  Exhibition “Bijutsu-shi Tansaku-gaku Nyuumon”, Meguro Museum of Art, Tokyo
1992 Exhibition “Video-Arata-na Sekai—sono media no kanousei”, 0 Art Museum, Tokyo

• Duck Jun Kwak (b. 1937) was born in Kyoto – an ethnic Korean who has spent his entire life in Japan effectively as an immigrant. His notions of ‘identity’ and ‘origin’ have been nebulous and questionable, due particularly to the historical and social boundaries that existed around him. https://www.galleryhyundai.com/artist/view/20000000101