Korean Daily Life Scenes
Red
food tents, chili paste colour washbowls, green oil bottles, or black plastic
bags – the accumulation of these daily objects shapes South Korean cultural
identity. Between the reviving and nostalgic street sellers, and the politics
of comfort and order, where will these landscapes stand?
Korean Daily Life Scenes is a series of
South Korean everyday life moments. These snapshots are painted with wavy
outlines and flat mat colour fragments, cluttering elements to invite the
viewer to look for signs, objects, and gestures in detail.
An ongoing project from 2016.
An ongoing project from 2016.
Underwear seller, 2021.
On the top of the piles of underwear
wrapped in plastic bags, the price tags stop passersby: ‘cheap’. This is an
opportunity to buy replacements at a low price for old boxer shorts and white
undershirts that fathers wear until the bottom hem is overstretched.
Gangneung Fish Market Seller, 2024.
Chuncheon Beauty Salon, 2023.
Mill, 2021.
Covered market Seller watching Tv, 2018.
Gangneung Fish Market Seller, 2024.
Chuncheon Beauty Salon, 2023.
Mill, 2021.
Covered market Seller watching Tv, 2018.