2020 Seongnam notable artists’ Exhibition 1

Lee Don-soon

Life in a Separated City-From the Gwangju Housing Complex Incident

2020. 7. 24 (Friday) - 8. 16 (Sunday)

Vandal Gallery, Seongnam Cube Art Museum

T. 031-783-8149   808 Seongnam-daero, Bundang-gu, Seongnam-si, Gyeonggi-do

Gwangju Housing Complex Incident is the starting point for Seongnam City today and a historical event that retains the painful history of people in the city.

Lee Don-soon's "The Separated City Life—Gwangju Housing Complex Incident" at the Bandal Gallery in Seongnam Cube Art Museum is a first-year exhibition designed as part of Seongnam City's project to commemorate the Gwangju Housing Complex Incident and is also the first exhibition of Seongnam's notable artists.

In this exhibition, the artist will present a new work that reconstructs the Gwangju Housing Complex Incident based on his childhood experiences in the history of the city and the Village terrain, and use the space on the first and second floors of the exhibition hall to reflect on the meaning of life in the process of urban modernization in various ways, including paintings, objects, installations and videos.

In particular, by recollecting the historical meaning of the barren life of the poor hillside village, which originated from the forced migration of evictees around Seoul's shantytown and the development of barren land, and the historical meaning of the Gwangju Housing Complex Incident, the exhibition vividly describes the reality of the reverse of state power and discriminatory life hidden behind the human life of an industrial capital society centered on development.

It contains the human figure between migration and settlement, power and exclusion, solidarity and division, memory and oblivion, and the instinct of human survival and the power of life that rises above the wound in the face of uncertainty of hope and despair.