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Eerie hyper-real sculptures that are grotesque and beautiful

By Sarah Keating profile image
Sarah Keating
Features correspondent
Xooang Choi

With his hyper-real artworks, Korean sculptor Xooang Choi pushes the boundaries of how we see the body. Watch the video to find out more.

From his studio just outside Seoul, Xooang Choi makes art that is anything but ordinary. His sculptures of the human body are both grotesque and beautiful, surreal and hyper-real.

Scattered around his workshop are feet, eyeballs, hands and faces, eerily waiting to be incorporated into one of the intricately detailed pieces he is working on.

But the Korean artist uses the body as a metaphor for social norms and conventions that pervade Korean society.

Click the video above to find out more.

Filmed by Kwon Moon.

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