Video: Bridging Home - a house hanging in the air
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Globalization and urbanization is coming! And where just recently there were cozy streets, built up with small private houses, now skyscrapers of glass, concrete and steel rise. It is these rapid transformations taking place with society, and is dedicated to Bridging Home installation, which appeared recently in the South Korean city Gwangju.
Globalization and urbanization are some of the most popular themes in the works of contemporary artists. Examples of this statement include a series of Product Placement paintings by Alex Gross or old Hong Kong in miniature sculptures In retrospect: Hong Kong zoomed in. The Bridging Home installation by Do Ho Suh is the most similar to the latter.
This unusual installation is a small, one-story, traditional Korean private house that hovers in the air between large houses trapped in it.
As conceived by the author, Bridging Home symbolizes the globalization that is advancing on traditional society in different countries of the world, including South Korea. There are fewer and fewer corners where this state is unique, and more and more faceless buildings and cities, the same for the whole world.
In addition, through the installation Bridging Home, Do Ho Soo explores the confrontation between the unique human personality and society, which stifles a person, deprives him of exclusivity, subjecting him to its laws and principles.
The installation Bridging Home was created by Do Ho Soo for the 9th Gwangju Contemporary Art Biennale, which will be held in this South Korean city from September 7 to November 11, 2012.
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