Historically, Korea has been destroyed several times. It had to face a lot of difficulties, rebuild itself countless times and hence overcome many psychological traumas. Despite all these hardships, Korea and its inhabitants always succeeded at recovering and keeping unity through their belief in humanistic values, which has thus become part of their shared identity. We can connect this to the characteristic collective Korean feeling of 한 (Han). It represents both a silent melancholia and the power to overcome this desperation. With the following work I try to show modern Korea as a patchwork of trauma, an urbanised Korea that is endlessly recovering, looking for the right way to exist, as an independant country.
Each time I see something that make me think of overcomsumption, gentrification, junk modernism I stop and 3D scan it. The process is simple, I tke my phone and I take pictures around the object I want to save. Then in Photoscan I build the pictures into a 3D object.
These are som scanned mod
me textures from the dels.
Then I have to simplify the meshes and add them into my unity project and build an AR app in which we will be able to put back this junck environment onto the real world. You can see a screen record of a prototype on my blog. For Bliss show, it’s quite enigmatic because for my project we don’t need a room but we need an outdoor enviroment and a smartphone. But we can imagine a screen with a 3D video of my junk environment or even better an explorable version of this environment in a «game».