Bio
Tahn (Taeyoung An) is a Korean media artist whose practice explores time, memory, perception and the ways images are preserved, transformed and erased. Shaped by a red-green colour vision deficiency, he has developed a visual language attentive to structure, texture, density and interval rather than colour alone. Working across moving image, installation, drawing and data-based systems, he investigates how personal and collective memories endure through technological and historical change. His work has been presented internationally and is held in public and institutional collections in Korea.
Project Description
Developed with
VEHA Archive’s The Best Side collection of vernacular Belarusian family photographs, The Best Side, Without Colour examines images through structure rather than colour or individual identity. Focusing on weave, posture, surface wear and spatial relations, the project asks how archival photographs can remain accessible while protecting those represented within them. The resulting moving-image work and series of structural plates foreground traces of how people gathered, posed and chose to be remembered.
