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A Study on the Images of Sasam Art: Focusing on the Concept of Georges Didi-Huberman’s Montage Image

  • The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art
  • Abbr : JASA
  • 2023, 70(), pp.52-71
  • DOI : 10.17527/JASA.70.0.03
  • Publisher : 한국미학예술학회
  • Research Area : Arts and Kinesiology > Other Arts and Kinesiology
  • Received : August 15, 2023
  • Accepted : September 12, 2023
  • Published : October 31, 2023

Youn-Joo Kim 1

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ABSTRACT

The Tamra Artists Association, established in 1993, has been organizing the Sasam Art Exhibition every year since 1994 to ensure that the Jeju Sasam is remembered and the truth around the historical event is known. Although many works of Sasam art have been produced and introduced through the thirty exhibitions held so far, Sasam art has not been dealt with as a subject of academic research until now. Therefore, this thesis takes Sasam art as a research topic in response to the need to study Sasam art, which has received little attention from researchers compared to the importance of its historical, social, and artistic values. In this thesis, I borrowed the concept of ‘montage image’ proposed by Georges Didi-Huberman in his analysis of photographic images related to Auschwitz-Birkenau. My analysis of the images of Sasam art based on the concept shows the images they help viewers to imagine and think and eventually reach at the truth around the Jeju Sasam. Due to the montage that juxtaposes images with images or text in one scene, the images of Sasam art propose a dialectical reading — that is, they collide with each other while revealing differences, all of which helps viewers to approach the real of the Jeju Sasam. Leading the knowledge into the truth and reserving people’s memory is a matter of ethics and politics. Thus, this thesis demonstrates that it is an ethical and political response that the images of Sasam art has continued the memory struggle for thirty years.

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