While navigating through congested traffic in a city, one often wonders ‘where are all these people heading to?’. Movements in a daily life mostly occur for certain predetermined purposes, but there are also cases where they are forced under irresistible forces or events. In several cities that went through rapid growths, purpose-oriented developments migrated a great number of people in order to transform existing districts in a short period of time. Tall, fancy buildings changed the value of original places and turned undeveloped surroundings into outmoded areas of the cities. The works of Kyunghwan Kwon and Hyewon
In a fast moving society, people transform objects around them and utilize those as makeshifts in a daily life. Odd combinations, such as cans and stones stacked to balance out a tilted low wooden bench or a broom handle turned into a bathroom keychain, can be found when observing niches in
Kyungwhan Kwon creates unstable pieces or structures of various sizes using easily accessible iron angles and making use of their variability. Made with rather unfamiliar materials, these works occupy the exhibition space as if continuous transformations are going to occur.
Hyewon
Curator Kyungmin Lee
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