
์ฒ์ ์ฐ์ฃผ The First Universe
2025
Acrylic and painted resin
86.8 ร 12 ร 65 cm
Commissioned work for Galaxy Corporationย
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<์๊ฐ ๋ ธํธ>
์์ฐ์ โ์ธ๊ฐ์ด ๋ง๋ค์ง ์์ ๋ชจ๋ ์กด์ฌ์ ํ์โ์ผ๋ก ์ ์ํ ๋, ์ฐ์ฃผ๋ ๊ฐ์ฅ ๊ดํํ ๊ท๋ชจ์ ์์ฐ์ด ๋๋ค.
์ด๋ฆฐ ์์ , ์๊ฐ๋ ๋ฐคํ๋์ ๋ณ์ ๋ฐ๋ผ๋ณด๋ ์ผ ๋ง๊ณ ๋ ์ฐ์ฃผ์ ์ํ๋ฅผ ์ง์ํ ์ ์๋ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ์ ๋ชฐ๋๋ค.
์ฒ์ ์ํ๊ณ๋ผ๋ ๊ฐ๋
์ ์ธ์งํ๊ฒ ๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋ก์ผ์ ๋ฎ์ ํญ๊ณต๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์กฐ์ข
ํ์ฌ ์ฐ์ฃผ ๊ณต๊ฐ์ ๋ ์๋ค๋๋ ์ ๋ค์ ์๋ ๊ฒ์, โ๊ฐค๋ฌ๊ทธโ ๋๋ถ์ด์๋ค. ๊ฐค๋ฌ๊ทธ๋ ๊ฐค๋ญ์(Galaxy)์ ๋๋ฐฉ(่พ:๋๋ฐฉ ์, ์ผ๋ณธ์ด ๋
์์ โ๊ฐโ)์ ํฉ์ฑ์ด๋ก, ๋ฌด๋ ค 255ํ์ ๊นจ์ผ ํ๋ค.
์ด๋ฅธ์ด ๋์ด ๊ฒ์์ ๋ค์ ๋ณด๋, ๋น์ฐํ ๊ธฐ๊ดดํ ์ธ๊ณ ์๋ช
์ฒด๋ฅผ ๋ฎ์ ์์ ์ค ์์๋ ์ ๋ค์ด ์์ฐ์ ์กด์ฌ์ธ ๋ฒ, ๋๋น, ๋ฑ์ ๋ฒ๋ , ์ ๊ฐ์ ๋ชจ์ต์ ํ๊ณ ์๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋ฐ๊ฒฌํ๋ค. ๋ก์ผ์ ์์ ๊ท์ฌ์ด ์๋ช
์ฒด๋ค์ ์ฃฝ์ด๋ฉด์ ์ ์งํ๊ณ ์์๋ ๊ฒ์ด๋ค.
์ฐ์ฃผ ๊ณต๊ฐ์ ๋ ์๋ค๋๋ ๊ณต๊ฒฉ ๋์์ด ์์ฐ์์ ์จ ์๋ช
์ฒด์์์ ์๊ฒ ๋๋ฉด์ ์๊ฐ๋ ๊นจ๋ซ๋๋ค. ์ฐ์ฃผ๋ ์ธ๊ฐ์ด ์ฌ๋ ์ง๊ตฌ์ด๊ณ , ์ธ๊ฐ์ด ๊ณง ์ํ๋ผ๋ ๊ฒ.
์ํ์ ์ธ๋ฅ์๊ฒ ํ๊ดด๋ฅผ ํตํ ์ ์ง์ด ์๋, ๊ฝ์ ํผ์ฐ๋ ์ ์ง์ ์ผ์ผ์๊ณ ์์ญ์ธ๋ค.
๊ฐ๊พธ๋ ์กด์ฌ๋ก์์ ์์ฐ์ ์ธ๊ณต์ ์ ๋ชฉํ๊ณ ๊ฒ์๊ณผ ์์ ์ ๊ฒฐํฉํ๋ค. ์ด ๊ฒฝ์พํ ๋ฆฌ๋ฌ๊ฐ์ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ์ ์ด๋ฆฐ ์์ ์ถ์ต์ ์ํํ๋ค. ์ํ์ ์ญํ ์ ์ฌ๊ธฐ๊น์ง. ๊ฐค๋ฌ๊ทธ ์ต์ข
255ํ ์ดํ์ ๊ฐค๋ญ์๊ฐ ํผ์ณ๋ผ ์ด์ผ๊ธฐ๋ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ์ ๋ชซ์ด๋ค.
๋์๊ฒ ์ฐ์ฃผ๋ ์ง๊ตฌ์ด๊ณ , ์ํ๋ ์ฌ๋์
๋๋ค.
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<Artist's Note>
If nature is defined as โall beings and phenomena not created by humans,โ then the universe is nature on its most expansive scale.โจAs a child, the artist had no way of imagining the universe or galaxies beyond gazing at the stars in the night sky.
The artistโs first awareness of the concept of a galaxy came through Galaga, a video game in which players pilot a rocket-shaped spacecraft, shooting enemies while flying through outer space. The title Galaga is a portmanteau of galaxy and the Japanese word ga (่พ), meaning moth, and the game famously requires clearing 255 stages.
Revisiting the game as an adult, the artist noticed something unexpected: the enemiesโonce assumed to be grotesque alien life formsโwere actually modeled after creatures from nature, such as bees, butterflies, beetles, and scorpions. Progress had been made by shooting and eliminating these small, familiar life forms with rockets.
Realizing that the targets drifting through space were beings derived from nature led the artist to an insight: the universe is the Earth on which humans live, and humans themselves are the galaxy.
This work whispers an alternative to humanityโprogress not through destruction, but through blooming.โจIt fuses the artificial with nature understood as something to be cultivated, and brings together game culture and art. Its light, rhythmic energy calls forth memories of childhood. Here, the workโs role comes to an end.
What unfolds in the galaxy beyond Galagaโs final 255th stage is now left to us.โจFor me, the universe is the Earth, and the galaxy is people.