Choi Xoo-Ang is a promising artist with considerable technical skill and conceptual rigour. Choi has been presenting mesmerizing hyper-real figures following the immediate success of his first solo exhibition in 2004. Even though his works are very realistic, he never represents real figures as they are. Size and proportion of a body are important elements in his works. As The Dreamer (Lot 2425) exemplifies, the unique aesthetics of this diminutively-scaled human body is the first step to appreciating the inner logic of his works. This reduced creates a tension in the viewer's experience, allowing them a psychological distance while they are at the same time drawn in to the hyper-real material execution of the figure. Tensions between surreal scales and realistic representation structure Choi's uncanny reality. The Dreamer portrays a figure seemingly burdened by a bluish mass, which rests ponderously on his head and is nearly as large as the figure himself. The blue colour implies a level of fantasy and escape, one that remains apparently beyond the reach of the figure, becoming a symbolic pressure that literally weighs him down. Choi's unexpected surrealistic elaborations on otherwise naturalistic figures allow us to imagine an immediate sympathy with the figure, burdened by internal demons and dream, forgetting the importance of the present.