Hosang Park

Living in: Seoul, Republic of Korea

Work statement:
I photographed a small park located within a living space in downtown. I paid attention to images seen from a bird's-eye view and proceeded working on them. While working, I focused on not relating special stories, but in presenting spaces. I think that the pictures presented this way can be a pathway to remind viewers of their thoughts on familiar places. In particular, their thoughts or discussions regarding park spaces. The parks seen here and the details taken from a bird's eye view will reflect characteristics of downtown areas and distorted realities. In addition, I presume that they will also reveal fabricated Korean-style spaces and the stark realities of democracy in a more comic way. These parks are that of fragmented space intended as patronizing and face-saving moves, a park that mimics real parks and a place intended to be used as a park. That case is an outcome of scars of Korean-style capitalism, simulacra. Every apartment complex is decorated with a park and is adorned with playgrounds and strange-looking installments. The place created along with green areas of land demonstrates coarse, improvised landscape architecture, an artificial scenery. I tried to capture such interesting, but strange-looking, scenes.

Bio:
HOSANG PARK, Sex: male, Born: 1977 in Korea. Education 2006: Finished Dept. of Fine Art photography, Graduate School of Art & Design, Sangmyung, Seoul, Korea. 2004: B.A. Dept. of Photography, Undergraduate School, Sangmyung, Cheon-an, Korea.