Looking at the City as a Collection of Stories
The exhibition ‘STORYSCAPE’ was held at Wooran Foundation from Dec. 5, 2019 to Jan. 11, 2020. Coined by the project designer of this exhibition, Joon Won Suh (principal, GongGanIkki-Creative Lab for Local and Human Stories), the word ‘STORYSCAPE’ refers to a landscape with a story. This exhibition used the memories by Michael Wolf (1954 – 2019), who tried to capture the backstreets of Hong Kong. He highlighted the city with specific scenes of daily life, such as the various forms of pipes, rubber gloves of similar colour found in different places, and uniquely shaped chairs placed in the streets. Suh designed this exhibition based on this idea of the everyday lives of the urban inhabitants and the impermanence and continuity of the city as depicted within Wolf’s works. If Wolf had wanted to capture the ‘everydayness’ of the local people in his Informal Solution, Suh wanted to summon the memories of these people through this exhibition.
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