(*1999, Yeosu) Lives and works between Vienna and Frankfurt
SOON IT WILL BE EMPTY
Promotional tissue boxes are a common sight in Korea, distributed for free by real estate agencies to advertise properties under construction. What is printed on the outside of the box has a distinctive visual formula. 3D render of the property, photography of an existing town, locational amenities and public infrastructure highlighted with exaggeration, streets full of traffic. All in CMYK. The tissues are produced simultaneously as the construction takes place, therefore capturing the architecture of expectation. Its circulation enters intimate surfaces of everyday life ahead of the physical reality it represents. The printed image is taken from a tissue box found in the town of Unjeong, whose population grew from 40,000 to 290,000 over the last two decades. By magnifying a marginal section of the advertisement, the work attempts to examine the friction between image and space, while preserving the overlooked landscape of Korean suburbia.