Choi YoungMan and 'Teo(Land)'

• What I feel in broken and discarded places is not sorrow or nostalgia, but energy accumulating in anticipation of transformation or modification. 'Teo(Land)' is about the space created by people and the earth, and it speaks of time flowing independently to each individual.
• Once sparkling new objects become ruins as they break and wear out, and the ruins arranged by the will of nature become abstract. Places and things deeply connected to our lives appear strange and different through a new beginning. Sometimes, the enlarged objects are unrecognizable in their original form, prompting viewers to project their own experiences and create their own stories.
• The flow of time, which is perceived but not caught, is one of the important themes in the 'Teo Project'. In one work of ' Teo(Land)', hundreds to thousands of images are completed into one photograph. Therefore, all individual frames from the starting scene coordinates (1.1) to the last scene coordinates (x,y) have their own independent times.
  Therefore, the completed scene that people see may seem to be fixed at one point of view, but in fact, it is where individual and discontinuous beginnings are flowing. The recent work of the 'Teo Project' included an action of throwing a ball into the frame where the photo is taken and taking a photo momentarily, in order to further develop the individuality of time that the photo of ' Teo(Land)' has. This is a work of creating an event on the space above each frame. The event started with the work of bouncing the ball. The resulting image of 'Land' is abstract, but the process of working is very objective from the observer's point of view looking down vertically (satellite view). Within that objective fact, the artist adds an event to become the subject who causes the event from the observer of the event. This is another beginning where the photographer's action is added to the long-term project on the subject of land. In the work, 'ball' is not one ball. 'Ball' is a different time each.