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Citizen’s Forest
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Park Chan-Kyong

Film & Video (Film & Video)

Park Chan-Kyong’s film Citizen’s Forest draws on two works for which the artist has a particular fondness: The Lemures , an incomplete painting by Korean artist Oh Yoon, and Colossal Roots , a poem by Korean poet Kim Soo-Young. The Lemures (1984) is a panoramic sketch depicting a procession of victims from major events in modern Korean history, including the Donghak Peasant Revolution, the Korean War, and the Gwangju Uprising. Colossal Roots (1974) is an intellectual text taking into account the multiple layers of unconditional acceptance of traditions while subverting the Orientalist perspective.

Samuel (Standing), Vaalkoppies (Beaufort West Rubbish Dump)
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Mikhael Subotzky

Photography (Photography)

At the halfway point along South Africa’s Highway N1, running from Cape Town to Johannesburg, sits the small town of Beaufort West. The 1,200-mile highway joins the northern provinces of the country to the south cuts through. Beaufort West becomes the main strip of the township, whereby the thousands of commuters passing through are thus forced to witness the town’s squalid social and economic condition.

Mikhael Subotzky

Mikhael Subotzky’s (b...

Park Chan-Kyong

Artist and filmmaker Park Chan-kyong was born in Seoul under the reign of Park Chung-hee, whose authoritarian rule transformed South Korea from an impoverished, war-torn country into what the artist describes as a ‘militaristic, repressive, modern state.’ The shadows of Japanese occupation and the Korean War loomed large over the period, driving the call for nationalism and productivity...

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about 19 months ago (02/12/2024)

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about 77 months ago (04/27/2019)

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about 84 months ago (09/22/2018)

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about 133 months ago (10/04/2014)

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about 176 months ago (03/07/2011)

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about 178 months ago (01/01/2011)

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about 179 months ago (12/04/2010)