Title: Bow? Bow!
Year: 2005
Medium: digital print, panel, holograms (videograms)

The work consists of two motion picture holograms and a panel on which artist’s printed portrait is pasted on. As stereograms contain a moment of movement in a two-dimensional plane, this work represents a play of dimensionality. Although photographs flatten out images, artist’s printed picture stands up as a sculptural object holding two glass plates, which project moving three-dimensional holographic images. Both plates contain artist’s gesture of curtsy yet in different costumes. First figure, in ballerina’s tutu, shows Western gesture of curtsy. The second figure represents Eastern gesture as known as 90 degree bowing movement. These two animations require viewers’ indirect interaction. In order to view the first hologram, viewers make a left-right movement in a specific angle. In the case of the second hologram, viewers not only make a left-right movement, but they also have to bend their back to see the figure bow in the virtual space of the plate. As audiences are attracted by the moving moment of three-dimensional images in holographic plates, artist hopes they discover the infinite possibility of representations in this playful assembly of dimensionality.