Organizers
2024/5/7(Tue)~5/21(Tue) 11:00〜19:00
【Finish】City and Urban Sculptures
The exhibition celebrates the 10th anniversary of the exchange between Space Ppong and Koganecho Area Management Center by showing artworks from artists who have participated in the exchange programs between the two organizations.
Date｜7th~21st May 2024
Time｜11:00〜19:00
Venue｜Kogane Studio B （〒231-0054 Kanagawa, Yokohama, Naka Ward, Koganecho, 2 Chome-７）
Close｜Every Thursdays
Admission fee｜Free
Organized by Project B
Managed by Space Ppong
Sponsored by: Gwangju Metropolitan City
Cooperative with Koganecho Area Management Center
●Time of Opening talk Event
7th May 2024 17:00~20:00
Artists｜
Yoonji Gwon
Hoyoon Shin
Sehyun Lee
Insung Lee
Yonghyun Lim
Yoonji Gwon
The artist, perceived as a woman, found the sexual oppression she encountered to be unjust, leading her to reject or shy away from gender roles.
This experience caused difficulties in forming and understanding relationships with others as she grew up. As a result, the artist kept her distance from others to protect herself. In an attempt to defend herself, she created a shell to hide within, but this shell ironically led to experiencing different types of oppression. The oppression she faced in her childhood continues to impact her as an adult, and she expresses this through her art.
Hoyoon Shin
The artist creates three-dimensional forms by assembling and structuring flat paper.
The artist, who majored in sculpture, began by being interested in small and fragile materials such as erasers, straws, and thin wires, rather than creating large sculptures using bronze or iron.
The process of creating works of art has changed to combining materials and creating solid structures. Through this process, the artist began with the recognition of the fragility of the individual existence of the artist ‘I’ or the human individual within society, and the personal desire to overcome it.
This artistic practice has evolved into the current work of structuring with paper since 2005.
Sehyun LEE
“The work records space.”
The recorded space is a site where historical events have occurred.
In the Punch Bowl, DMZ series, the artworks capture Korea’s Demilitarized Zone, the only place in the world that remains in a state of ceasefire.
The space is approached as one where countless scars left by war coexist with inaccessible nature and the terror of conflict.
The places shown through the artworks are sites in modern Korean history where many incidents have occurred, and they still hold truths that are yet to be revealed for various reasons.
By photographing these historical places, the artist poses questions to the audience that approach the truth.
Insung Lee
The artist aims to metaphorically capture striking images from life in their artworks.
Impressive phenomena encountered in life and their ironic hidden meanings become the subject matter for creating art.
The images that serve as materials within the artworks undergo a process of metaphor and symbolization to be visually reconstituted.
The images in the artworks function similarly to illustrations in a novel, driving the narrative towards its conclusion.
Elements that frequently appear in the works, like orange dots, are symbolic markers with which the artist poses questions to the audience, allowing viewers to interpret them in various ways.
The artworks approach completion through these inquiries and diverse interpretations.
The works remind and interpret the invisible elements of life, metaphorically expressing the traces of life experienced by the artist.
Simultaneously, the artist intends to enable viewers to find intersections in the stories that allow them to reflect on the meanings of their own lives.
Yonghyun Lim
One of the roles of art using media is to make fun of the strange and ironic experiences people have in today’s society, using different kinds of metaphors.
Before starting their artistic work, the artist worked as a media producer on movie sets and in TV production, creating stories for both on and behind the screen.
The feelings and thoughts the artist had in the past now shape their current work.
The theme of “the two sides of media” started from these experiences, which is why the artist often uses media as material. So now, the artist is expressing what they see and feel in a way that is familiar to them in their artworks.
