Art Sonje Center is delighted to present a symposium dedicated to the work of Ha Chong-Hyun, serving as a preliminary research initiative for his upcoming solo exhibition, slated to open in early 2025. The period from 1959 to 1975 marks Ha's graduation from Hongik University (1959) and the formative years of his career as an emerging artist. The symposium aims to deepen the understanding by examining his works from the late 1950s to 1970s through the lenses of urbanism and materialism—key themes in the Korean art scene amidst the rapid industrialization of the post-war period. It will also contextualize Ha's early artistic development within the broader international art scene, highlighting his participation in group exhibitions in Japan and Taiwan, as well as the Paris Biennale during this time.

Do Ho Suh: Speculations consists of three main chapters. Space 2, introduces the artist's proposal for public art. Do Ho Suh’s Dong In Apartments (2022) and Robin Hood Gardens, Woolmore Street, London E14 0HG (2018) will be shown sequentially. These videos explore time, memory and the meaning of communities through the lens of shared housing complexes that are vanishing due to redevelopment. Recorded and represented in intricate detail through the camera’s slow tempos, these films invite reflection on communal history and the interactions between people and their environments.

본 강의에서는 서도호 작가의 작업 전반을 ‘장소특정적 미술’이라는 동시대 미술의 큰 흐름 속에서 살펴봅니다. 서도호는 그의 작품과 그것이 전시되는 장소가 어떤 방식으로 상호작용하여 새로운 의미를 만들어낼 것인가에 대해 언제나 면밀하게 사유합니다. 서도호의 작품은 대부분 처음부터 ‘이동’을 전제로 만들어졌고, 따라서 보관되어 있는 동안, 즉 아무도 볼 수 없이 포장이 되어있는 동안에는 작품으로서 의미가 없습니다. 그의 작품들은 전시장에 도착하여 관객들의 눈 앞에 활짝 펼쳐질 때 완성됩니다. 그렇게 관객이 작품의 일부가 되고, 작품은 공간의 일부가 되어, 다층적인 관계들을 만들어내는 것. 그것이 서도호의 작업이 갖는 최종적인 의미가 될 것입니다.