Hosuk Jang
A song that has not been sung yet
The boys discovered the Lascaux cave when looking for a runaway puppy. Similarly, a farmer cultivating a vineyard found the statue of Laocoon. Each encounter makes us ask how these serendipities contribute to acquiring a great legacy with its historical impact on mankind.
Looking at the paintings and the grandiosity of the city, there have been times when we have made dazed, gauging faces. After receiving their countless inspirations, questions arise: How will it be remembered and preserved? The artist Hosuk Jang assigns one more ethical task how to repay this debt.
His mission begins with his work planning and designing spaces as a director of Hosting House, a way to repay his debt. It is the duty of one who kneels before a decision that has already been confessed, the natural law of worshipping the world that has already been built and accomplished, and honesty to state that beauty is beautiful. He paints, erases, builds, and destroys to repay.
With this in mind, his exhibition seeks to form an altar commemorating his first repayment. 22 works are pillars, arches, decorations, and offerings, all filled, exaggerated, and directed to somewhere. Specifically, the genes of mirrors are disrupted. When placed joint-separately, they reflect each other and produce their logic of supporting, rejecting, imitating, and turning around. It is challenging to deny looking at these mirrors, just as he once did before a specific scene.
A camera broadcasting the 2024 Paris Olympics focused on the obelisk at Place de la Concorde from the air. Its gold, triangular, sparkling top visibly mesmerizes the audience. Similarly, those traits came from somewhere on his canvas.
Writer Woochul Jang