- Can't See, 2023, Acrylic on installation and paper, Dimension variable.
SONG SHIN-KYU works with hidden stories that are excavated from changed landscapes that are left only with traces of time.
In Can’t See, the artist focuses on Dongbu Market in Okcheon-dong. Dongbu Market is the first residential commercial complex
and one of the oldest permanent markets in Gangneung, alongside Seobu Market.
Currently, deliberations are in progress concerning its reconstruction.
The artist paid attention to the stories of objects imbued with the breath of the merchants,
the individuals who have lived in the space enduring changes over many years. The accumulated time of the objects is expressed with papier-mâché,
the materiality of paper that lost its original function. By carefully tracing the forms the objects once would have had, SONG SHIN-KYU blurs out
the original nature, meaning, and memories of these objects, calling onto an inner response of our own memories.
