The first mirror was a black mirror. A mirror made of well-polished circular obsidian, believed to be from 6,000 BC, was discovered in an ancient tomb in Anatolia, the current territory of Turkie.
Mirrors are objects that are very familiar to us. We see our reflection in the mirror every day. And looking in the mirror may be the first step to understanding who we are now. As a tool for self-recognition, the mirror entails the relationship between subject and object. This is to capture the world through a body that repeats and circulates and intersects in a mysterious exchange system, that is, a body that communicates reversibly.
Soon, I come to the conclusion that the gaze of the mirror is from my own gaze to that of others. Seeing is the ultimate essence of communication regarding relationships with humans, and it can be said to provide us with a new role process as the basis for existence in the specific field of experience called myself and the world. ‘Humans are mirrors of humans.’ The mirror itself is a universal magic tool that turns an object into a scene, which in turn turns it into an object, and turns myself into the other and the other into myself.
Mirrors create a space of play between dreams and reality, and measure oneself by projecting oneself in a mirage-like reflection. The black mirror, which was the mirror of the beginning, now becomes a passage that reflects another world between light and darkness, containing another unfamiliar image for those of us who are accustomed to seeing ourselves reflected in the mirror.
• Combined shipping
When ordering two or more products of the same brand and same shipping group, the basic shipping fee is charged.
- There is no additional shipping fee.
• Delivery period
- Expected to take approximately 5 business days
• Change of mind return
- If you change your mind and return the product, a refund will be made after deducting the round-trip shipping fee.
Seungbin Yang is a multidisciplinary designer who creates various objects through traditional crafts and storytelling.
I graduated from the Design Academy Eindhoven in the Netherlands with a bachelor's degree in Public Private and a master's degree in Contextual Design. Afterwards, I worked and operated a design studio, Studio Seungbin Yang, in Eindhoven, Netherlands, and currently run a design studio in Korea.
Starting with the '21g' series, the author continues with the 'Lacquered Forms' and 'Simulacre' series. Through research on applying lacquer, which was traditionally applied to wooden objects, to various physical properties, we create three-dimensional objects using paper, which is considered light and weak, and apply lacquer on them.
Afterwards, in the 'Requiem' series, he produced works that combined archaeological fiction with objects based on the artist's own storytelling.
The artist's works are displayed in the permanent collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A), a royal museum in London, England, and the Stedelijk Museum, a modern art museum in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
