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영사제 (映寫祭) Flame Vision | Projection Altar
(2025)
variable installation
steel, gear, film, hand crank, convex lens, maple hard wood, pla, candle
Note.
<영사제>는 영화라는 장치와 가구라는 구조 사이에서 파생된 제안이다. 제단처럼 놓인 영사기는 단순한 도구가 아니라, 빛과 이미지가 생성되고 소멸되는 과정을 드러내는 의례적 기계로 작동한다. 영화-이미지의 환상은 더 이상 극장 속에 갇혀 있지 않고, 거주 공간 속, 그 어둠 속에서 불안정하게 출현한다.
이 작업은 영화와 가구, 장치와 의례가 교차하는 지점에서 ‘영화란 무엇인가, 가구란 무엇인가’라는 질문을 다시 꺼내 든다. 촛불 아래에서 반복과 소멸을 거듭하는 이미지들은, 결국 거주라는 가장 사적인 맥락 속에서 ‘영화’라는 경험이 어떻게 다시 구성될 수 있는가를 묻는다.
This work (flame visions) begins with a question and a desire: Could a projector become furniture?
While cinema has traditionally been experienced through apparatuses and within spaces—namely, the theater (cinema) and the "frame"—this work proposes a new structure: an altar. Through a primitive light source—candlelight—images are projected, and the object becomes at once a candelabrum, a piece of furniture, and a stage for ritual acts of cinema.
Here, the image is not merely something mechanically reproduced. It is a hand-crafted object and, at the same time, a cinema in itself. The flickering candlelight, the trembling film, and the projected image emerge in unstable ways—not as complete scenes, but as afterimages that shimmer and vanish.
This work is a proposal born at the intersection of cinematic apparatus and furniture form. The projector, placed like an altar, is no longer a mere tool; it becomes a ritualistic apparatus that reveals the process by which light and image emerge and dissolve. The illusion of cinematic imagery is no longer confined to the theater (cinema), but precariously emerges within the darkness of domestic space.
This work reopens the question: What is cinema? What is furniture? At the point where cinema, furniture, apparatus, and ritual intersect, images flickering under candlelight endlessly repeat and disappear. Ultimately, they ask how the experience of cinema might be reconfigured within the most intimate context of dwelling.