金松谷
Better Days/好日子
韓國在過去四十年來快速的發展,也因此產生了許多特殊的社會現象。其中一個就是長工時與短休憩。在假期中,人們用盡最大的力氣去享受時光,但由於短暫的假期,致使他們只能在城市間遊蕩,而不能出遠門旅行。因此,首爾附近的休閒場所業者將潛在目標顧客設定為城市人,以吸引顧客消費。這樣的模式使得西方文化與韓國文化融合再一起,好日子便在描述在這樣的社會現象和條件下,韓國人們如何好好享受他們的稍縱即逝的假期。
Korea has been developed rapidly over 40 years, which caused a lot of social ironies. One of the ironies is long working hours with a very short period of break. During holidays, Koreans try their best to enjoy it, but due to lack of time to travel, they spend time mostly around the city. Therefore, the leisure places around Seoul and suburb try to show something interesting to entertain their customers. By doing so, all of the western and Korean cultures are mixed together. Better Days describes Korean spectacles from the way they enjoy their short vacation.
About the photographer:
Born and raised in Seoul, Korea in 1979, Seunggu Kim lives and works in Seoul, South Korea. And he majored in photography in SM university and studied visual art at Korea National University of Arts. He would like to describe how we are living. He thought photography could show our ‘real world’. He wanted to balance the unnatural elements in the rectangle frame and describe what we are getting used to the social ironies of reality. Exhibitions have included Artbit Gallery, Post Territory Ujeongguk, Song Eun Storage / Song Eun Art Cube, Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Art Sonje, Song Eun Art Space, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea, and BMW Photo Space, Busan, Korea, Exco, Daegu, Korea. Awards and Grants include Filter Space, Chicago, Finalist of Lens Culture, The Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture, Korea, GoEun Art, and Cultural Foundation, Korea, The Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture, SongEun Art and Cultural Foundation.
Website: seunggukim.com