Buhm Hong
Buhm Hong explores memory through a multidisciplinary practice including video, sculpture, installation, and drawing.
His work is multi-layered, with a focus on exposing the structure of memories in the three-dimensional world. The relationship between memory and place is at the core of Hong’s work, which he evokes through dreamlike grayscale drawings of pared-down interiors, animations of the same projected large onto interior spaces, and installations of intertwined geometric assemblages that suggest deconstructed architectural spaces. Hong’s interiors are sparse, only including details such as walls, ceilings, windows, doors, or staircases, thus giving a dreamlike feeling that one could be both anywhere and nowhere at the same time. While his interiors remain closed and agoraphobic, other drawings and installations by the artist suggest infinite constellations and mazes in the sky, wandering off to as far as the imagination will allow. In his upcoming work, Hong continues to explore his multi-channel interior projections that merge together past, present, and future in a single space and moment.
Queens, NY
Born 1970, Seoul, South Korea
2005 MFA School of the Visual Arts, New York, NY
2003 MFA School of the Visual Arts, New York, NY
1995 BFA Hong Ik University, Seoul, South Korea
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