Taeyang Hong's work deals with the loneliness between the city and humans. "Jeondo" means Upside down in Korean, which means we act like a ruler of our cities, but actually, we make the things that dominate us. So the position of creator and creation is upside down.

«In the movement of the earth that has evolved for tens of thousands of years, Only one pain does not heal and be located on it. In the end, life's repeatedly tangled piece, the roars of pain that bounce on the wall of the universe, can not even shake even a small reed. This awful roar that only you can hear, sink into the varying land, and keep makes echoes. The roar of pain that has been repeated for many years. Still, keep echoes inside you.»

Hong is always digging into the society and humans or our universe. Human is still fighting with LGBT, racism, nationalism, capitalism, and socialism, religion. There are still so many poor and sick people. Even in this short life, Human is arguing about war or aversion. His work is questioning where we are from? Why are we here? What do we do and what he needs to do. In this Project, Taeyang Hong is telling us that a city is dominating, leaving the city behind and going back to a handful of dirt. As the series title refers to a small thing, we are a tiny thing in this universe. we can not control anything but being in peace.

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Artist biography

Hong Taeyang was born in 1986 and influenced by art at the early stage of his family's life. He has graduated from Dong-ah institute of media and arts. Upon graduation, Hong Taeyang participated in performing art, studying photography, studying in Mainz academy of Arts (JGU), Germany and finished his diploma in BLOO école de photographie et d'image contemporaine, Lyon, France. He currently works as a full-time artist in Europe and Korea.

Small Thing

In the city, which is always changing, we make tiny rooms in enormous buildings for gathering. We build those Cages for avoiding loneliness, but we are more lonely and cold.

Bridge 2019, 50 cm x 48 cm Digital C-type print

We cannot live without solitude, and what are we focusing on? What we are focusing on in our daily life may be heaping the loneliness rather than avoiding it. Like massive bridges and cliffs, our society is continuously repeating connections and disconnections.

Small thing 2 2019, 75 cm x 72 cm Digital C-type print

In this scene where the elements that make up our society are gathered, our existence seems infinitely small. Thousands of people come and go between this huge building, but there has not quieter and colder place.