Strange Portraits by Kim Byungkwan

Kim Byungkwan is an artist from South Korea who is trying to bring out strangeness from familiarity - visual habit. He explains; "Everything there is out there in this world, more or less, provides familiar vision. This familiar vision can be replaced as habit. This habitual vision which every object gives us and creates comfort. However it shuts down all the other possibilities. The habitual vision or visual habit makes us go by the routine ways. It stops us from having adventure and checking out the wonders out there. My work is trying to destroy, tear up, and reconstruct this habitual vision so that our vision can be expended to other images.".