Seoul, b. 2022

"Isaac Oz" is an artist group consisting of originator Lee Seung Hwan, developers Kim Yoo Jung and Kim Ji Myung, and performers Kim Hyo Jung and Jeon So Hee. In popular music, producers, composers, and singers achieve top-tier results through a highly specialized division of labor and chemical synergy. A film director is not a monarch who monopolizes the identity of a single work but rather an alchemist who draws out the best chemical combination. In these fields, the chemical synergy of division of labor is naturally accepted. However, in all areas of art, it is only in fine arts (contemporary art) where the solipsistic thinking of the capital ‘I’ still prevails. The capital ‘I’ refers to oneself (‘I’) and also represents the first letter of ‘identity.’ It is also the ‘I’ of the id, one of the three components of Freud’s personality theory. Isaac Oz is a project that seeks to overcome the ‘I’ through close division of labor. Isaac Oz rejects the myth of art by killing the identity of ‘I’ and the id of ‘I.’ It introduces the artist’s name as a brand within the title of "artist" to ally with the system while resisting the capitalistic structure. We do not live as a subject or self, nor with self-consciousness. We can only live inter-subjectively. Inter-subjectivity means living in a relational way, constantly being influenced by others, the other, the world, and the universe, and returning that influence.