The Game of Places, Hosang Park
by AMELIA GROOM
  • WHAT

    THE GAME OF PLACES, HOSANG PARK

  • WHERE

    UTS GALLERY, LEVEL 4, 702 HARRIS STREET, ULTIMO

  • CONTACT

    9514 1284 OR HERE

     

published on 16th September, 2008

Hosang Park’s strange aerial images (like this one) depict fabricated city spaces that are utterly lifeless. His use of a bird’s-eye view distorts things by taking away perspective and depth; making the controlled spaces even more impersonal.

Park is one of five young Korean photographers whose work is included in THE GAME OF PLACES, currently on at UTS Gallery. Under a general theme of ‘place’ the works explore in various ways the individual’s urban and interior surrounds. **Seoul, a metropolis with more than 10 million residents, is depicted as weirdly devoid of human life through the eyes of a number of the sundry artists in the show.

A small space in the university’s design faculty building, UTS Gallery is one to keep your own eyes on for diverse and often surprisingly stellar exhibitions.

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