Korea photographer, Hong Goo Kang, will be displaying 40 new photos at One and J. Gallery and Trunk Gallery. This is the extended exhibition from one at Goen Museum in Busan from March to early May. During last ten years, Hong Goo Kang has photographed a 'house' disappeared due to redevelopment and new town planning, and he will show new works taken in Busan. 

Goen Museum holds the long-term project, selecting an photographer of medium standing every year and supports to take a photo of 'Busan'. And as the fist artist of 2013, Kang has researched a possibility of new artistic expression as utilizing a digital image, although he started exploring from the painting. 

He has been working based upon the theme of fundamental introspection for urban redevelopment. Also, some of his works, coloring on the photo, received a positive attention from both art and photograph industries.
For this exhibition, he visited undeveloped mountain villages in Busan frequently. Such places contain the traces of people living intensely after the Korean war like a living history of Busan.

The artist said that he was fascinated by external diversity of houses and villages, efficiency of utilizing a confined space and honest building structure revealing a history of the house. 

'Proxemics' was named by Edward Hall to theorize mutual observation about one's directions of a space, and it adds a depth to better understand about the 'house' in terms of cultural aspect. The exhibition is expected to give a chance to look back the way for living and the history of mountain villages in Busan, as well as expand thinking and knowledge for a person, space, and culture. 

Courtesy of One and J. Gallery, Goeun Museum