“Analogue formats Study” explores the discourses of the analogue photographic formats in terms of measurement and standardization. It defines analogue photographic formats as the confinement of multidimensional reality into the polygon of 2-dimensionality and the representations of specific measurements in accordance with the camera model based on the standard measurement system.
The measurement of formats brings up a concealed abyss in the exactitude of measuring in a standard system. The accuracy of actual format sizes has consequently slight variance with official sizes since in the production of camera model, exposure and measurement process it happens to be inaccurate as well as randomly rounded off results to the first decimal place by the physicality of the ruler and the observer.
Furthermore, the hand-drawn grids of photographic formats in official values matched with actually enlarged formats reveal a rift between technical imperfection of physical conditions and theoretical formality again.
At last, when the measurement of formats arrives in the realm of convergence namely accumulation point near theoretical values we acknowledge, then we could finally call them “00 x 00 mm/inch” formats to find the place in a specific category.
Eunsun Cho
Biography: Studied Architecture at the University of Seoul, South Korea, Photography at Neue Schule für Fotografie Berlin and currently studies mathematics at Technische Universität Berlin
Exhibition / Publications / Awards: 2021 (Upcoming) Pestizide, Heinrich Böll Sitftung, Berlin, Germany 2020 (Upcoming) Umweltfotografie, Neue Schule Für Fotografie, Berlin, Germany 2019 Nou Wave I, Nou Wave gallery, old biscuit factory, London, UK 2018 Man muss das Leben tanzen, Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur Mainz, Germany Analog, Galerie der Neuen Schule für Fotografie Berlin(European month of photography), Germany 2017 Stadtkörper, Kaleidoscopic arts platform(Wandsworth fringe festival), wilditch community centre, London, UK 2016 Elements, solo exhibition, Galerie pavlovs' dog, Berlin, Germany
Einszweisiebenacht, Galerie der Neue Schule für Fotografie Berlin, Germany Stadtkörper, Dance live festival, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK 2015 Stadtkörper, Trois C-L, Centre de Création Choréographique luxembourgois, Luxembourg, Luxembourg Die Vermessung der Zeit, "Day of relativity" 100th anniversary of the first publication of Einstein's general theory of relativity, cooperation with May Planck institute of gravitational physics, Lichthof in Geodetic institute Leibnitz Universität, Hannover, Germany Zeit und Fotografie, Artist in Residence(supported by Hannover and Stiftung Kulturregion Hannover), cooperation with May Planck institute of gravitational physics, cultural monument Hermannshof, Völken, Hannover, Germany
Artist statement: I work in the fields of photography, drawings, installation and sculpture. My projects revolve around the elements of photographic mediums dealing with physical and technical problems such as measurements, algorithms, analogue/digital difference and representation of language of formality accompanied by the processuality of the image. In conjunction with the themes, I investigate the intersection of biology, chemiphysical phenomena and mathematical problems with photographic reality. It aims to make the subliminal intercommunication between the distinctive languages visible. So it seeks an unforeseen convergence point evoking the sense of relatability to the concealed phenomenon of our technologic society. Keen also on the reconstructed historicity of disparate spaces through photography, it explores how human being interacts with the environment. The interdependency with each other is presented with the choreographed body infused with the characteristics of accorded movement in contradistinctive circumstances.
2015
Stadtkörper, Trois C-L, Centre de Création Choréographique luxembourgois, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Die Vermessung der Zeit, “Day of relativity” 100th anniversary of the first publication of Einstein’s general theory of relativity, cooperation with May Planck institute of gravitational physics, Lichthof in Geodetic institute Leibnitz Universität, Hannover, Germany Zeit und Fotografie, Artist in Residence(supported by Hannover and Stiftung Kulturregion HAnnover), cooperation with May Planck institute of gravitational physics, cultural monument Hermannshof, Völken, Hannover, Germany
2014
Kollektiv 123, Madame Zucker, Berlin, Germany
2013
We do not know what a line can do, Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur Mainz, Germany
2011
Lächeln und Lachen, Klaus Stemmler Foundation, Berlin, Germany
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Interview with Eun Sun Cho, ART Habens, UK, 2020
Interview with Eun Sun Cho- Analogue format study, Al Tiba9 contemporary art, Barcelona, Spain,
2020
Eun Sun Cho, Silver grain body, A5 Magazine, Liverpool, UK, 2019
Nou Wave I, Nou Wave Gallery, UK, 2019
Man muss das Leben tanzen, Akademie der wissenschaften und der Literatur Mainz, Germany, 2018
Einszweisiebenacht, Neue Schule für Fotografie Berlin, Germany, 2016
Die Vermessung der Zeit, Kunsthochschule BErlin Weißensee, Germany, 2015