In her series Saturday Night, Kim Insook realizes the fantasy of every voyeur: on a Saturday night, the 66 rooms of a hotel shamelessly unveil their large bay window, exposing the intimacy of their occupants: in every room, a scene is meticulously reconstituted and the residents are going about their business however not always in the most innocent matter: sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll… every human vice is exposed. Kim Insook defends her position as an observer by explaining that she doesn’t interpret nor does she criticizes, she watches. Her photographs with evocative titles offer a sarcastic description of the human condition.
(From Galerie Paris-Beijing)

Kim Insook’s website.

Liliana Porter‘s installation ‘Man with Axe’:
The sculptural installation involves a 3 inch man in a suit smashing up what appears to be wreckage from his past. Look closely and you’ll see everything from clocks, vases and mirrors to a dozen or so other tiny figures like soldiers, farmers, kings and a groom.

Quoted from My Modern Metropolis

Tom French carefully combines detailed photorealism with strong elements of abstraction and surrealism, focusing on the reflection of the conscious and subconscious mind.
Don’t miss his work on Flickr.

(via Colossal)

Nao Matsumoto created hundreds of middle finger candles to protest nuclear power in Japan…

[via spoon & tamago]

Life is Beautiful is an installation by Iranian artist Farhad Moshiri…

[via colossal]

The Art of Kim Joon.

[…] Kim Joon’s computer graphics are somewhere in between painting and photography and the resulting digital humanoids are painted with brand logos such as Gucci, Armani, Budweiser, and BMS.  To Kim, tattoos are a metaphor for one’s hidden desire and hard-to-control obsessions and through tattoo, he started to see the people and the world.  To him, tattoos represent the mental awareness that liberates the individual’s or the organization’s oppressed desire; the skin is simply the canvas and the tattoo becomes the individual’s cultural expression. […]