Inbetween times

Ten lanscapes of New Suseong-dong

Giographically, Seoul is the center of urban problem since it is surrounded by various sizes of mountains with excellent nature but has the most densely populated co-habitation housings (apartments). This work shows both of them. The apartment in the picture is the first generation apartment in Seoul under the urban organization policy by dismantling old traditional Korean-style houses to provide western-style apartments in 1971. Also, Gyumjae Jeongsun(1676~1759), one of the best painters in Joseon Dynasty, used to have a house in Soosung-dong down the Inwang mountain of Seoul and he represented the landscape near his house in . My art piece name was adopted by his artwork name. Currently, Seoul is trying to represent the westernized urban design. Therefore, this apartment is under dismantling process for a park. This work focused on the inside of specific 10 families out of 291 families under removal. We can often see the picture series recording the absent condition of deserted empty space. However, what intended to deliver aesthetically was to capture the chaotic situation of the pure nature out of window and artificial nature by men, the latter seen from the interior materials like wallpaper inside when looking outside through the empty space and open window.