Emil Goh

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The main focus of Emil Goh’s practice is the details of living in cities. In 2000, he made his first between video, which showed a series of 360 degree video panoramas of different apartments and their window views in London (followed by between (Hong Kong) 2002 & between (Seoul) 2004).

The following year, he started his series of video snapshots or long photographs that were closer to 60 seconds than 1/60th second (Styrofoam 2001, Mall 2001). He then began concentrating more on his still images like the Lantern series, 2002 (glowing after-hour office blocks) & bldg 2003 (light trails of birds above a skyscraper).

Emil Goh was born in Johor Bahru, Malaysia and moved to Australia when he was 19. In October 2003, he was awarded an Asialink Artist in Residency in Seoul where he researched urban Korean pop culture. His first project was documenting the Couplelook 2004 phenomenon (newlyweds in his & hers outfits) and his latest work, mycy, looks at the personalized online habitats of Cyworld, Korea’s most popular blogging service.

(Emil Goh statement received in 2006 and revised slightly after his death on September 7, 2009.)

Emil Goh
reahroom/Hyum Ju Kim 2005
from the series MYCY
Type C print
37 x 150 cm
Courtesy of the artist

Emil Goh
Bldg 2003
Type C print
100 x 100 cm
Courtesy of the artist
Pat Corrigan, Private Collections, Hong Kong and Seoul

Emil Goh
Lantern 2002
Number: 4
Type C print
100 x 100 cm
Courtesy of the artist
Private Collections, Sydney and Hong Kong

Emil Goh
woongie/Woo HeungJe 2005
from the series MYCY
Type C print
37 x 150 cm
Courtesy of the artist

Emil Goh
MD03/MinJi Cho 2005
from the series MYCY
Type C print
37 x 150 cm
Courtesy of the artist

Emil Goh
Two Pairs 2004
from the series Couplelook
Type C print
66 x 100 cm
Courtesy of the artist

EMIL GOH
MOTHER AND DAUGHTER 2002
video still, 35 seconds, single channel video, DVD, edition 3
courtesy the artist and Sherman Galleries, Sydney