Taewon Jang
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THE STORY OF ARTIST:
TAEWON JANG
"When I encountered an abandoned factory in the northern outskirts of Seoul in 2005, its huge monolith looked both seductive and ominous. This strange landscape, neither fit for human use nor for nature itself, was the raw face of civilization. I began to record industrial landscapes (sites such as fossil fuel diggings and raw material processing plants) in South Korea, Japan, and the United States. I encountered over 500 factories and industrial sites – some abandoned decades ago and nonexistent on maps, some running without interruption for years, and some newly built. I documented the trajectory of light in the path of human survival, witnessing how humans transform nature and nature conditions humans."
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