Seo Jung Kug, Hometown of the Stars, 2000. fluorescent painting on PB board, black light. 950 × 420 cm. Courtesy of the artist. The 1st Seoul International Media Art Biennale media_city seoul 2000 city: between 0 and 1. Installation on the ceiling above the public phone box standing between the pillar no. 17 and 19 at the platform toward Seongnae Station of Jamsil Station on Line 2. 2000
You board a train on Line 2 at Konkuk University subway station going toward Gangnam, the train passes over the Han River, and after a while you get off at Jamsil subway station. There, on the subway platform, are telephone booths in the direction of Seongnae. On the ceiling in the corner above the telephone booths, the artist painted small dots with blue and yellow fluorescent paints. These pieces thus transform it into an infinite space with twinkling blue and yellow stars. There is no sky underground, but these hundreds of stars evoke virtual stars twinkling in an imaginary sky.
