Stemming from questions about the cultural and geographical bias and referentiality of represented images and their materiality, 「Gestures」 is an alternative representation experiment that seeks to erase the cultic and idolatrous values implicit in lens-based representation and contemporary image circulation. The sublime derived from the vertical movement of the SpaceX rocket, which looks like an ascension and descent, and the gesture of documenting it, like following it, is easily found on social media, frozen in a square frame. In the age of image consumption, the majority of humanity has seen, heard, learned, and used the image language developed and constructed in the West, so the images consumed become biased cognitive facts. To break free from this, 「Gestures」 uses Adobe After Effects' ‘Stabilizer’ function, which stabilizes shaky footage, in reverse, to reveal the gestures of the videographer and loosen the universal representation way, representing the scene of takeoff and landing in a tranquilized state. In doing so, 「Gestures」 visualizes movement outside the frame and questions how we are used to seeing and consuming ‘realistic footage.’

Dowon Yoo explores form from tool’s perspective. He moves between the physical and digital areas through various apparatuses of image formation, perception, and analysis, from analog to digital tools, in order to explore the sense of body and authorship in the flatness of screens and images. At the same time, he deconstructs and reassembles the strong bonds between the two realms, the Western bias and colonial elements represented in digital space based on East Asian ways of seeing.