All at once delicate and nightmarish these painted polymer clay figures by Choi Xooang are nothing short of remarkable. Xooang is attempting to draw attention to human rights abuses in Korea, and seeing this somewhat macabre, stunted figures unable to see or speak, its hard to dispute that. (source)
Xooang's sculptures show incredibly realistic features with slightly de-human changes to them, with hollowing eyes and smoothed over mouths. The unsettling way these photographs are taken makes the sculptures looking right into the viewers eyes, making the audience feel unsettled. The way that Choi Xooang's work manages to portray this idea abuse in Korea through distortion of human figures makes his pieces hard hitting and controversial.
This successful idea of eeriness that Xooang contains in his work is something that I aim to create in my own, and I feel that producing work with this much unsettlement has good possibilities of narrative and development within them.
