GanaArt Collection: Beneath Technology — Scenes at the Threshold

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• The Nation's Land: Chili Pepper Seeding (1990)

  Look for farmers planting chili seedlings as a giant excavator tears up the field toward them, painted by Lee Jong Gu on a real grain sack.

• Situation 871 (1987)

  A huge red hand rises out of a packed hillside shantytown while Namsan Tower and neat office blocks glow behind it, painted as such neighbourhoods were cleared before the 1988 Olympics.

• Cafe (1987)

  In Lee Heung Duk's candlelit bar, men sit before a uniformed official, gold sits between two talkers, and a man slumped at the counter is ignored by everyone.

• Father and Son (1981)

  Shin Hak Cheul builds a father out of discarded plastic and consumer goods, hugging a laughing baby and glancing around as if to guard him.

• Golden Module (2021)

  Tiny workers bend over the gold tracks of a computer circuit board laid out like a city map, never shown what they are making.

Ideal per a

• Cultura barata
• Visites al vespre
• Friquis

Millor evitar-ho si

You want a light visit: the works deal with evictions, exploited labour and a factory worker's suicide.