Concrete+Jungle

EVENT DESCRIPTION

The Korean Cultural Center in Hong Kong presents the upcoming exhibition ‘Concrete+Jungle’, featuring the major artworks of the four artists, KyungJin JEONG(鄭敬陳), Ken CHUNG(鍾家俊), Mindy LUI(雷恩兒), Yiseul JUNG(정이슬), selected through Open Call 2023.

These artists capture the everyday moments they witnessed through the artist’s gaze, and expressed with the artist’s own medium including painting, installation, photographs, video and more. Artists observe trivia and mundane objects and items surrounding them – inside residential environment, urban landscape. They have a keen insight into their daily space, looking at the ordinary without passing by.

The artists share the theme ‘City Life’. They treat the characteristics discovered in their observation in daily lives, especially in their city lives and living environments, as the subjects of their artwork. They observe mundane items, such as laundry under the sun, rice grains and a boiler in a bathroom, as well as unique items, such as gosiwon (a tiny dorm room), an old house with water leaks, an adapter that converts voltage and an artificial scene of nature in a city. It remains as the audience’s decision, instead of the artists’, to decide whether the subjects are general or unique. Except for Jeong’s work, it is not easy to determine how the artists see the city and the place they are living in, in terms of whether they are critical or affirmative. They leave the decision to the audience by not making any judgement to their work but only putting the moments of discovery and what they observed in their work.