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White Cube | cotton string | 350 X 350 X 350 cm | 2000
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String_mirror | string, video camera, projector | 240 x 180 x 90 cm | 2003
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String Mirror_hbody | elastic string, steel frame | 85 X 85 X 14 cm | 2007
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String Mirror_open me 0411 | elastic string, steel frame | 90 X 200 X 14 cm | 2007
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String Mirror_HH_0402 | print on elastic strings, steel frame | 120 x 200 x 15 cm | 2009
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Perceptual Mirror_Blinker | LCD unit | 50 X 80 X 5 cm | 2006
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Perceptual Mirror_Blinker | LCD unit
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Please call me ! | interactive video installation, sound sensor, computer, projector | dimensions variable | 2002
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Mistake for error | mixed media | installation | 1995
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String Mirror_IMG_7252, 7258 | print on string | 138 X 106 X 15 cm | 2006
ABOUT ARTIST
Hong Sungchul, using various media and modern technology, prompts interaction and performance from his viewers. Communicating the deep desire for human contact within society, his works never fully reveal themselves initially and exude a ghostly quality whereby the visual sense is questioned. The viewer must abandon reliance on their eyes alone and use their bodies and voices to prompt cooperation with the work. Stripping away the isolating experience traditionally encountered within art galleries, Hong initiates a dialogue with and between viewers, instilling the sense of community prised in Korean culture. Hong’s current body of work revives his string concept – a visual representation of what ties humans together from the earliest stage of life – the umbilical chord. These strings, upon which an image is printed, are staggered in his works and interlace to reveal a final representation – one of support or loneliness.
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String_hands_4318 | print on elastic strings in a steel frame | 100x 150 x 14cm | 2012
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String_hands_0552 | print on elastic strings in a steel frame | 120 x 120 x 15cm | 2011
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String_hands_1284 | print on elastic strings in a steel frame | 160 x 100 x 15cm (each x3) | 2011
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String Mirror_C_Hands_6531 | print on elastic strings in a steel frame | 120 x 220 x 15cm | 2010
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String_eyes_1493 | print on elastic strings in a steel frame | 138 x 106 x 15cm | 2012
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String Mirror_hvbody_0291 | print on elastic strings in a steel frame | 102 x 80 x 14 cm | 2009
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String_hands_0246 | print on elastic strings in a steel frame | 120 x 200 x 15cm | 2011
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String Mirror_C_Body_01 ~ 06 | Print on elastic string & steel frame | 85 x 85 x 14 cm (each) | 2010
BIOGRAPHY
b.1969
Lives and works in Seoul, South Korea
EDUCATION
2001 MFA, Integrated Media, California Institute of the Arts, CA, USA
1996 MFA, Sculpture, Hong-ik University, Seoul, Korea
1994 BFA, Sculpture, Hong-ik University, Seoul, Korea
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2012 Solid But Fluid, HADA Contemporary, London, UK
2010 YHD Projects, Seoul, Korea
2008 Anxiety and Dynamics of Incompleteness, Kring, Seoul, Korea
2007 Perceptual Mirror, Gallery IHN, Seoul, Korea
Youngeun Artist Relay_Sungchu Hong, Youngeun Museum of Contemporary
Art, Kwangju, Gyeonggido, Korea
2002 RGB_SHOW, Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2001 String Tongue, CalArts, LA, USA
2000 White Cube, CalArts, LA, USA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2012 Korean Eye, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
2011 The Korean Miracle: A Cultural Evolution, Asia House, London, UK
The Senses: Interactive Perception, Hada Contemporary, London, UK
2010 Korean Collective, Albemarle Gallery, London, UK
Hong sungdo - Hong Sungchul, Erhard Witzel Gallery, Wiesbaden, Germany
Remind, Youngeun Museum of Contemporary Art, Kwangju, Gyronggido,
Korea
Man Ray & His Heritage, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2009 From Yeonhui-dong, YHD Projects, Seoul, Korea
The Magic of Photography, Hanmi photo Museum, Seoul, Korea
Shooting Image, KOEX, Seoul, Korea
2008 Unusual One, Lobby of Hana Bank Head Office, Seoul, Korea
Contemporary Korean Photographs 1948-2008, National Museum of
Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
Your Mind’s Eye_Digital Spectrum, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
Youngeun 2008 Residency & Open Studio, Youngeun Museum of
Contemporary Art, Kwangju, Gyeonggido, Korea
First Step: New Art from Korea, Art Seasons Gallery, Beijing, China
2007 Mutual Induction, KTF Gallery the Orange, Seoul, Korea
Text in Bodyscape, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
Look & See, Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2006 Soft Landing- 7 Artists Meet BMW, CAIS Gallery, Seoul, Korea
EHS project, Sejong Center, Seoul, Korea
2005 R-mutation, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, Korea
Between, Contemporary Art Museum of Hongik University, Seoul, Korea
Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
Issues of Criticism, POSCO Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
2004 Contemporary Art Video & Installation, Daegu Art Center, Daegu, Korea
Soul & Bowl, Gallery IHN, Seoul, Korea
Alternative Realities, EMAF, Ewha Woman’s University, Seoul, Korea
2003 Fake & Fantasy, Art Center Nabi, Seoul, Korea
Beauty, Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
I, You, Us, Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
2002 The 2nd Seoul International Media Art Biennale, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul,
Korea
Alchemy, Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
2001 Peer, Gallery 825, LA, USA
Immediate Distance, Main Gallery, CalArts, LA, USA
Great Video Installation, D301 Gallery, Calarts, LA, USA
Have a Cool Summer, Track 16, LA, USA
2000 Art Video Screening, Bijou, Calarts, LA, USA
1994 to 1999 : Participated in more than 15 group exhibitions since in Los Angeles and Seoul

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