Kang Hong-Goo has developed his aesthetic language throughout continunig experiment on materials from the 1990s, including the famous photo montage works and a series of “photo-paintings” that combine medium-specific attributes of photography and painting. Beach Series was first introduced at media_city seoul 2002 Luna’s Flow as a digitally synthesized photo image created in the 2000s. The series includes beachfront scenes that fill long, panoramic frames and represent a collection of cultural fragments visualizing marginalized entities, individuals, relationships, modern times, and ruins in a single image. In doing so, Kang recognizes these symbols of reality as special, unique, and intrinsically unidentifiable in any universal context, thereby becoming channels for transmitting the real.
