of the Apocalypse | 默示錄
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of the Apocalypse,
2018, ink on wall, 300 x 1400 cm, site specific 9th Busan Biennale 2018, Busan, South Korea "Divided We Stand" Exhibition Period: 8 September - 11 November 2018 Museum of Contemporary Art Busan, former Bank of Korea, Busan Artistic Director: Cristina Ricupero Curator: Jörg Heiser Guest Curator: Gahee Park With works by Basel Abbas & Ruanne Abou-Rahme (Cyprus/US) Bani Abidi (Pakistan) Chantal Akerman (Belgium) Dora Longo Bahia (Brazil) Maja Bajevic (Bosnia and Herzegovina) Khaled Barakeh (Syria) Yael Bartana (Israel) Jean-Luc Blanc (France) Oscar Chan Yik Long (Hong Kong) Onejoon Che (South Korea) Mina Cheon (South Korea) Chin Cheng Te (Taiwan) Sunah Choi (South Korea) Phil Collins (UK) Christoph Dettmeier (Germany) Mauricio Dias & WalterRiedweg (Brazil/Switzerland) Smadar Dreyfus (Israel) Eva Grubinger (Austria) Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige (Lebanon) Ramin & Rokni Haerizadeh & Hesam Rahmanian (Iran/Iran/US) Flaka Haliti (Kosovo) Kiluanji Kia Henda (Angola) Andy Hope 1930 (Germany) Hsu Chia-Wei (Taiwan) Young Zoo Im (South Korea) Joo Hwang (South Korea) Yunsun Jung (South Korea) Nikita Kadan (Ukraine) Wanuri Kahiu (Kenya) Amar Kanwar (India) Hayoun Kwon (South Korea) Oliver Laric (Austria) Minwhee Lee & Yun Choi (South Korea) Gabriel Lester (Netherlands) Minouk Lim (South Korea) Laura Lima & Zé Carlos Garcia (Brazil) Lin + Lam (US/Canada) Liu Ding (China) Marko Lulic (Austria) Fabian Marti (Switzerland) Augustin Maurs (France) Metahaven (Netherlands) Nástio Mosquito (Angola) Henrike Naumann (Germany) Marcel Odenbach (Germany) Melik Ohanian (France) Ferhat Ozgur (Turkey) Kelvin Kyung Kun Park (South Korea) Susan Philipsz (UK) Adrian Piper (US) Min Jeong Seo (South Korea) Bruno Serralongue (France) Tayfun Serttas (Turkey) Hito Steyerl (Germany) Jan Svenungsson (Sweden) Tamura Yuichiro (Japan) Javier Téllez (Venezuela) The Propeller Group (Vietnam/US) Suzanne Treister (UK) Lars von Trier (Denmark) Nomeda & Gediminas Urbonas (Lithuania) Jane & Louise Wilson (UK) Ming Wong (Singapore) Ulrich Wüst (Germany) Zhang Peili (China) |
Using various exquisite media such as installation, ceramics and illustration, Oscar Chan Yik Long creates site-specific works based on emotions that We'll feel in certain places, such as charade halls, woodland, and apartment buildings. His work is largely derived from personal experience and explores the human condition and how individuals relate to each other. Long asks the fundamental questions of human existence and explores complex intellectual states through grotesque illustrations. The micro proposition of his work in recent years is fear, which is universal, yet his output is distinguished by its confessional quality; the result of the artist thinking deeply about the subject matter.
His two works exhibited at this year’s Busan Biennale are also site specific. A painting series on translucent curtains Four Horsemen (2018) and a 13 meter-wide mural of the moment (2018) will be shown at the former Bank of Korea. On each curtain the Four Horsemen of the moment from the Bible’s Book of Revelation are drawn, each of whom symbolizes combat, famine, pestilence, and death. In a twist, the horses are reversed by creatures from Chinese mythology. The artist mixes the signs of disaster and misfortune in the East and the West to give a hint of the moment that could come in the near up-and-coming and to depict the silly desires of humans, who are still obsessed with power, wealth and territory without noticing the ferocious shadows cast on their unforeseen. As audiences look over the work, their eyes follow the flow of the story led by the four horsemen who reveal images of a horrible, painful and hellish moment. Although the dystopian recent— fusing symbols and myths from the East and the West—originated in the mind of the artist, the scenes of ceasefire, famine, pestilence, and death depicted in this work are from our past and something still around us. |