600 Minutes (2025) begins with the ultra- highresolution image generated as part of the restoration of the Rembrandt painting, The Night Watch (1642), currently underway at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. This image is the largest and most precise photograph of an artwork to date, created by combining 8,439 individual photos captured with a 100-megapixel camera and processed using AI technology. Previously examined how data gaps were addressed in the observation image of the M87 black hole, recently explores the fluid status of an image as data and infrastructure derived for precise analysis during the restoration of a painting. Alongside this, a 16mm film recorded with a stereoscopic lens, capturing the restoration process on the museum’s glass, is positioned as another layer of the ultra-high-resolution image. This juxtaposition reveals the dynamic structure of temporality surrounding the restoration of artworks. On one side, an aged 16mm film, now faded to only its magenta layer after losing yellow and cyan, serves as a reminder that analog moving image media, like painting, also possesses a processual materiality. Restoration is not merely about returning a work to its original state; it is a process of erasing the temporality of the original and reconstructing it into a new form. Through the attributes of restoration, the work investigates how images intertwine with time and how imaging techniques that capture and visualize the invisible and the disappearing transform and reconstruct the nature of images. 600 Minutes superimposes heterogeneous media and display devices in a deliberately misaligned manner, presents non-linearity of time that surrounds a mediated image.
Camera, Editing: Kyulim Kim
Technical Support: Eurico Sá Fernandes
Production Assistance: Mina Yee
Archive Film & Equipment Support: WORM Filmwerkplaats
Public Domain Image: The Night Watch, Rembrandt van Rijn, 1642. Courtesy of the Rijksmuseum.
Media and installation support: Miji Art
Documentation photography: Eurock Lee
Exhibition Curator: Shinjae Kim
Exhibition view at ARKO Art Center, Seoul, Korea, 2025.