Constructed Landscape
Euyoung Hong
September 27 – October 14, 2016
NARS Foundation is pleased to presents Constructed Landscapes, Season III International Residency Artist, Euyoung Hong’s solo exhibition.
The exhibition includes new works produced during her 3-month residency, including a large spatial construction, installation works and wall pieces. Constructed Landscape explores the complex relationship between urban space, capitalist production and politics, particularly concerning the ways in which things, spaces, and ideas are transformed in the process of capitalist urbanization. It also expands on the changing meaning and function of objects in relation to the system of value in the regime of capitalism. Hong’s sculptural installation works focus on experimentation with the perception of urban space – particularly concerning how things and ideas can be transformed within, react to, and become resistant to different structures and power relations – how the new can be produced in and through the complex relationship between heterogeneous elements in terms of the politics of space.
Euyoung Hong, Ph.D. is an artist and researcher. Hong graduated in sculpture from Ewha Womans University, Seoul in 1998, and was awarded an MA and MFA in sculpture by the University of Iowa, Iowa in 2002. She completed her PhD without any amendment at Goldsmiths College, University of London in 2013. She received many prestigious grants and prizes, provided by Gyeonggi Cultural Foundation, Gyeonggi, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, New York, Second Prize, Premio Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro, Milano and Paradise Culture Foundation, Seoul. She has exhibited nationally and internationally, with Saatchi Gallery, London, Metropolitan Arts Centre (MAC), Belfast, Youngeun Museum of Contemporary Art, Gyeonggi, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea, CICA Museum, Gyeonggi, International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP), New York and many others. She is the author of “The Spatial Politics of the Sculptural: Art, Capitalism and the Urban Space (2016).” She currently teaches at Ewha Womans University, Seoul.