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Installation view. The Crowning Project : Haenam Samsan Elementary School

The Crowned Thinker

The Crowned King Sejong the Great

The Crowned Yu Gwan-Sun

The Crowned Reading Girl

The Crowned Seungbok Lee

The Crowned Shin Saimdang

The Crown for The Thinker

The Crown for King Sejong The Great

The Crown for Yu Gwan-Sun

The Crown for The Reading Girl

The Crown for Seungbok Lee

The Crown for Shin Saimdang

The Crowning Project (2016-ongoing)

The Crowning Project is a project which crowns sculptures in a public space, especially in elementary schools. The sculptures were used as political propaganda and most of them have been removed or destroyed now, but some of them have survived from the 60s, 70s and 80s, the period of military dictatorship in Korea. The sculptures deserve the authority of a crown because of the survival and adoration they have received from the innocent minds in the past. With the coronation, I would like to drag up the past that we have tried to erase and the context of those surviving statues, which is obsolete just as the crown.

왕관 프로젝트 (2016-현재 진행 중)

왕관 프로젝트 는 지금은 대부분이 철거 되었지만, 60년대와 70년대, 그리고 80년대에 이르는 군사 독재 시절, 정치 캠페인의 일환으로 공공장소, 특히 초등학교에 설치 되었던 조각들 중 지금까지 살아남은 소수의 조각들에게 왕관을 씌워주는 프로젝트이다. 생존, 그리고 과거 순수한 동심들의 흠모를 대변하는 이 조각상들의 대관식을 통해 나는 우리가 지우려고 했던 과거와, 왕관처럼 지금은 더 이상 통용되지 않는 이 조각상들의 컨텍스트를 다시금 상기시켜보고자 한다.

Installation view. The Crowning Project : Haenam Samsan Elementary School

2016