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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.


2002 oing back to the Nature ...

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This is a collaborated piece of installation work that interprets the endless desire of humans introducing the concept of fishing to take advantage of the characteristics of the sea. Humans have been pursuing the convenience for themselves with the help of the benefits the modern civilization has brought to them. However, the destruction of the nature in the process will lead humans to the end of their fate as well. A kind of irony is employed to communicate this eschatological warning. The line of the fishing rod is cast from the sea to the land, not vice versa. This implies that the nature also has a desire for the friendship with humans. The artist hopes through this work that humans do not pursue only the desire of their own, but reflect on the unity with the nature as well.
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