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An installation of glowing neon lines in blue, red and green creates a series of concentric rectangular tunnels. The light beams stretch across a dark room, forming a geometric, architectural grid.

Jeongmoon Choi makes elaborate laser shows from UV lights and thread

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Date
23 January 2013

We all know that lasers are cool. Statistically speaking they’re cooler than David Hasselhoff, Madonna and ice put together. Yessir. But what about threads posing as lasers? Just how cool are they exactly? It’s not a question that had ever crossed our minds until we saw the work of Jeongmoon Choi, a Korean artist who uses UV lighting and coloured thread to create striking installations. By shining UV rays onto geometrically arranged luminous threads Jeongmoon transforms galleries into spaces that resemble retro gaming grids and complex light shows. Tron fans take note, this is the fine artist for you!

An installation of thin, colourful laser beams that criss-cross a deep blue room. The lines create a geometric web across the floor and ceiling, framing a small set of stairs.
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Jeongmoon Choi: Installation Shot

A room bathed in deep blue light is crisscrossed by thin, glowing lines of green and purple. The beams create a geometric web across the walls, floor and ceiling.
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Jeongmoon Choi: Installation Shot

A dark room is illuminated by intersecting beams of blue, purple and yellow light. The lines stretch across the floor and walls, leading towards a set of stairs.
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Jeongmoon Choi: Installation Shot

An installation of glowing, vertical lines of light in red, blue and green. The lines form translucent, geometric shapes that fill a room with wooden floors.
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Jeongmoon Choi: Installation Shot

An installation of glowing blue and red laser lines that create geometric, translucent walls across a dark room. The beams intersect to form a series of corridors and angular shapes over a wooden floor.
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Jeongmoon Choi: Installation Shot

Several people stand inside an immersive installation made of glowing blue and green light beams. The lines form a translucent, geometric grid that fills the room.
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Jeongmoon Choi: Installation Shot

An installation of glowing neon lines in blue, red and green. The beams create a series of intersecting geometric frames and grids within a dark room.
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Jeongmoon Choi: Installation Shot

An installation of vertical and horizontal laser beams in blue, pink and green. The lines create a glowing, geometric grid within a dark room.
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Jeongmoon Choi: Installation Shot

An installation of glowing neon strings in blue, pink and green, stretched tight to create geometric walls and corridors. The lines form a series of translucent, glowing rectangles that recede into a dark room.
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Jeongmoon Choi: Installation Shot

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James Cartwright

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James started out as an intern in 2011 and came back in summer of 2012 to work online and latterly as Print Editor, before leaving in May 2015.

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