From May 1st to May 31st 2020, ONE AND J. Gallery hosts "Study of Green-Seoul-Vacant Lot", the solo exhibition of the artist Honggoo Kang. Since the 90s, Kang captured the ulterior facets of the capitalist society through digital landscape photography; hereafter 2009, he went back and forth from Seoul and Busan as he documented the increasingly perishing images of their neighborhoods owing to urbanization and redevelopment.

From then on, he commenced his method of layering acrylic colors upon canvas-printed black and white versions of photographs he took. Here, two aspects are evoked from Kang's gesture of covering up a photographic image with acrylic paint: First, a deep-rooted distrust towards the photographic medium—i.e. a doubt of the visible subject or a chronicled truth, and second, an uncanniness generated from the artist's gesture(painting) of enclosing the subject.

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