ARGUS PAUL
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  • Photography
    • Ongoing >
      • How to Draw a Line
    • Previous >
      • 2020 >
        • I AM NOT A VIRUS
      • 2019 >
        • Stage Left
      • 2018 >
        • This Is Not an Exit
      • 2017 >
        • Heartfelt Welcome
        • Losing Face
        • School Memories: The Loss in Danwon High
      • 2016 >
        • Wrestling In The Streets Of Seoul
        • Reflections Inside The Seoul Metro
  • Articles / Interviews / Features
    • Feature Shoot
    • The Magnum and LensCulture Photography Awards 2017 Winners
    • PDN Emerging Photographer
    • 2018 Critical Mass Top 50
    • 2017 Critical Mass Top 50
    • CRITIC’S VIEW: Politics, Strangers & Art Not to Miss at Spring/Break 2018
    • The Phoblographer
    • LensCulture Magazine
    • Burn Magazine
  • Tour Dogs Zine
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ARGUS PAUL

Cuttings


I became interested in cut outs and collage after exploring the works of artists like Hannah Hoech, John Heartfield, and the surrealist Max Ernst. Using an x-acto knife, I carved out new figures from pre-existing images found in magazines and discarded library books. These new figures were then set between two planes of glass and situated into floating frames. Austere white backgrounds were incorporated into the work to give the notion that the characters are in purgatory. For the sake of online aesthetic, mock frames allude to tension beset by confinement.

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