Red block building, Video(02:40”), 2019

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‘Red block building’ is the main work of the vertical movement series that is pointing out the situation of blindly chasing fast speed in society. This project was started from her interest of building collapse accident in South Korea related to faulty construction that rashly implemented in the time when the country achieved fast development(1970-2000). By realizing the existence of countless red block building from researches, she could find red block as the material that used famously in the period because of its cheap price, its nice appearance and possibility to build fast. 

The verticality in the video is the resistance expression to the fast speed and it is a will to not to shaken by outward pace. With applying the expression to one of the red block building, as a symbol of the rapid speed inherent in society, the work conveying a message about the existence of potential dangerousness that we might don’t recognize in the speed society. Like this numerous red block buildings.