Busan Biennale
The Busan Biennale is a biannual international contemporary art show that integrated three different art events held in the city in 1998: the Busan Youth Biennale, the first biennale of Korea that was voluntarily organized by local artists in 1981; the Sea Art Festival, an environmental art festival launched in 1987 with the sea serving as a backdrop; and the Busan International Outdoor Sculpture Symposium that was first held in 1991. The biennale was previously called the Pusan International Contemporary Art Festival (PICAF) before it launched.
The biennale has its own unique attribute in that it was formed not out of any political logic or need but rather the pure force of local Busan artists’ will and their voluntary participation. Even to this day their interest in Busan's culture and its experimental nature has been the key foundation for shaping the biennale’s identity.
This biennale is the only one like it in the world that was established through an integration of three types of art events such as a Contemporary Art Exhibition, Sculpture Symposium, and Sea Art Festival. The Sculpture Symposium in particular was deemed to be a successful public art event, the results of which were installed throughout the city and dedicated to revitalizing cultural communication with citizens. The networks formed through the event have assumed a crucial role in introducing and expanding domestic art overseas and leading the development of local culture for globalized cultural communication. Founded 38 years ago, the biennale aims to popularize contemporary art and achieve art in everyday life by providing a platform for interchanging experimental contemporary art.
2012 New Space
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New Space
*Between Space
Nowadays, urban modern people have a desire to escape from the secular of more complex world than past. Therefore, the desire appears in whole of life and culture to recover tradition, history and purity of nature. As a way to escape reality, people have a vague nostalgia about the past. Relying on this nostalgia, I try to find the lost, unfulfilled desires from reality. Through these rituals, however, I do not want to recover the past itself, and I try to find the ideal future of recovered order and present-oriented goals.
*Selected Landscape
To reflect the personal experience of the past and present, the image of the city is optional space given significant meaning to the subjective experience, moreover, the nature images are combinations of the landscape that have special meaning and makes me relieved gives at a specific moment.
*During my walking trip in 2009, I have been to Busan. Climbing the hill behind apartments in this unfamiliar city, I could feel Busan closer and familiar rather than tourism area. The imagery of Busan painted on pottery shaped drawing is a space which is familiar to someone and unfamiliarity to travelers co-exist at the same time.