Nostalgic Mansion
Exhibition view of Art Accent: Nostalgic Mansion
PC Art Busan 2023
Art Accent came into being under the auspices of Art Busan as a support program for young artists, aimed at fostering their full creative potential and paving the way toward a more far-reaching conversation on their work. Since the launch of Art Busan in 2012, Art Accent has introduced the public to approximately 100 artists over 10 exhibitions.
Entitled Nostalgic Mansion, Art Accent 2023 presents Hahyung Kwon, Hansaem Park, Inhye Seo, Geonyul Jang, Wonhae Hwang. While their work draws on different forms and media ranging from photography to sculpture to painting, each has in common an engagement with their take on ‘portraits of the city.’ Hansaem Park, for example, reinterprets traditional Eastern-style landscape paintings (sansuhwa) through the poetic rhythms picked up in the field to yield sparsely evocative landscapes; Hwang Wonhae projects onto canvas the moments and memories that wash across the epidermises of buildings before parsing out a point of equilibrium via airbrush drawings. Others manage to leave behind deeply felt reverberations within the fleeting flashes of urban landscapes, reminiscent of the fading of photographs over time until mere parts of them remain. We have Hahyung Kwon elicitation within the frame of the nostalgia for one’s affective home forgotten to memory, Inhye Seo homage to the invisible labor of women embroidered on creases that reflect the ravages of time, and Jang Geonyul’s arrival at the midpoint of the screen by putting a sense of order to a formulated language extracted from fragments of everyday life.
As a gateway to an even more expansive narrative, Nostalgic Mansion is poised to present an opportunity for us to collectively perceive a spectrum of intriguing and multifaceted points of view from the young artists with whom we share this time and space and thereby encounter the tendencies and potential driving our contemporary art scene.
