Sungjin Song

Born in 1974 in Busan (South Korea)
Lives and works in Busan (South Korea)

Sungjin Song explores the habitat and lifestyles of urban dwellers through photography, installation, video and interactive art. Through his work, he chronicles urban change and how the structuring and restructuring of cities impact their citizens. Song completed a PhD course at Busan National University. Since then, he has had 11 solo shows and participated in numerous group shows, both in Korea and abroad. He has also coordinated public art projects in different countries, including projects at the Museum of Kaohsiung/Taiwan, ARKO Museum, Gwangju Museum of Art and the Busan Museum of Art.

Recently, in Berlin, Song initiated a project called “Postures,” which investigates the posture/posturing of people in the private and public space. He will bring this project to Karachi and some of the work he documents there will become part of the Biennale. Of his work on view at KB17, Song states: “Suppose a virtual city has things in common with a real one, then make people who live in an actual city play a game which is very simple and physical, like hanging onto a horizontal bar or standing on a balancing beam all together at the same time. I then capture their collective postures in photographs and on video. The aggregate of images confronts the viewer with people from different backgrounds all engaged in a single activity. The question is: will the viewer be able to identify who is who? The exercise is intended to make us think of our perpetual efforts to move forward and keep our balance; of why we keep on doing this; and of what we feel about the present.”