Doosan Gallery New York is pleased to announce Tae Dong Kim and Jihyun Jung’s exhibition “Site and Space.”

This exhibition seeks to explore the current status as well as the future direction of photography within Korean contemporary art through two emerging artists whose reality-driven works have garnered much attention. 

There has been a recent trend in contemporary photography to present the subject in a cold and objective manner by emphasizing its thingness. The two artists both deal with people and objects as their subject matter, but their similarity lies in the fact that they see their subject from a practical perspective, and by applying photography to the concept of the “object,” which has been a significantly reinterpreted in contemporary art, the artists are able to show new, expansive possibilities in the traditional aesthetic of photography.

This exhibition will showcase Taedong Kim’s series “Day Break” and Jihyun Jung’s series “Construction Site Dreg,” both bodies of work that causes one to reflect on contemporary society through the reification of cities as well as self-portraiture.

Taedong Kim’s series “Day Break” are images of people the artist met by chance while wandering around the city at dawn, which he captures without any editing and thereby presents the bare reality of the city without subjective feelings. Jihyun Jung’s series “Construction Site Dreg” comprises of images taken on site from completed construction sites as well as worthless waste and detritus around there that has been thrown away, and through these he metaphorically expresses the dehumanized state of contemporary life.

*image (left)
© Taedong Kim
courtesy of the artist and Doosan Gallery