Joo Hwang, Altered Landscape - Revisit, 2006/2024. 3 channel video, color, sound. 4 min. Photography: Joo Hwang, Video Editing: Jeong Jun Hwa. Supported by the 13th Seoul Mediacity pre-Biennale. Courtesy of the artist
The English word “alter” means “to modify.” I asked a dry cleaner to tailor the clothes of people of different sizes to fit my body and thought about this word, which I used while living as an Asian immigrant in New York, as a term that encapsulates the modernization reflected in Korea's changing landscape over a long period of time. Back in Seoul, the city had become somewhat more relaxed and lively with parks and forests, compared to when it had previously seemed dry and desolate. However, it was a little awkward and strange to see the banks of the Hangang River redeveloped by the Hangang Renaissance, the neglected Platanus tree with its base cut off next to Jamsil Stadium, and the high-rise building next to the thickly forested Yangjae Stream. (Courtesy of the artist)
Joo Hwang (b. 1964, Seoul)
Joo Hwang’s portrait and landscape photographs adopt a sophisticated aesthetic while exploring identity issues including gender and diaspora. Her major projects include East Village (1995-1996), which examines the alienated identity of a female Asian immigrant in New York, Temporary Warehouse (2011), which records the displacement of the city's artificial nature and buildings, and Her Portrait (2016), which studies on the female figure using image manipulation and photography techniques commonly used in cosmetics advertisements. Joo’s works capture unfamiliar images of familiar beings as metaphorical reflections that expand discussions about the social, cultural, and political backgrounds and conditions to which they belong and reveal the complex backgrounds that constitute contemporary identity. She participated in SeMA Biennale Mediacity Seoul 2016 NERIRI KIRURU HARARA.
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