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.
2014 Breath 02
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Gelatin silver print
92×122cm
Breath 02
Gelatin silver print
92×122cm
Breath 03
Gelatin silver print
92×122cm
Breath 05
Gelatin silver print
92×122cm
Breath 09
Intellectual and Emotional
With my father passing away in 1995, I worked on <Breath> series. My father had suffered from Alzheimer's disease for long and I had watched beside him, which felt pathetic that a human body lost not only its spirit but also moisture like plants being dried up. That idea on my father especially made me thinking over many things and my work <Breath> series were originated and inspired by it. I participated in the first Gwangju Biennale in 1995 with that work. After the work <Breath>, however, I had difficulty deciding how to do my future work after facing my father's death. I used to focus on life, death and existence but after that, my thinking on life greatly changed and I came to be interested in nature from some distance. That has made my work more meditative and I've thought of 'What can I introduce as an artist for Korean tradition or culture?' in 2000s. So I tried new interpretation of masks and white porcelain with photography.