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Artist Sungsil Ryu: Satirizing Reality through Black Comedy and Fictional Characters
Sungsil Ryu (b. 1993) employs black comedy to incisively examine capitalism and individual secular desires that dominate today’s political and social issues in Korea. Through performances, videos, and installations that adopt the format of one-person media broadcasts, the artist satirizes the entangled relationship between Korea’s unique traditional and folkloric values and its neoliberal social structures.
2025.05.26
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[Column] Roh Choong Hyun’s Prosaic Humane Landscape
The body of work that most clearly evokes the name of Roh Choong Hyun is his series Prosaic Landscape, in which he photographed the Hangang Riverside Park with a digital camera and translated those images into paintings.
2019
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[Critique] Kim Beom
“Though my works have a sense of humor, usually pessimism and absurdity underlie it.”
—Kim Beom
2018
