Seoul, South Korea, 24 NOV '23
Concrete Beach (2023) is a site-specific mixed media installation with sound, presented within a city-wide public installation event organized by the Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture Street Arts Creation Center. Conceived as an intervention into the existing urban structure, the work reconfigures a fragment of the city into a temporary perceptual landscape where visual form and sound converge.
Researched and developed from August to November 2023, the work was installed in November 2023 in central Seoul (Bukchang-dong, Jung-gu). Independently realized by the artist, it examines the relationship between the city, public space, and artistic intervention. By inserting an artificial “shoreline” into a dense concrete environment, the project invites citizens to encounter the artwork within the rhythms of everyday urban life, blurring the boundary between constructed aesthetic space and the lived city.
The project ultimately poses a perceptual question about the boundary between everyday life and art. Rather than forming a distinct exhibition space, the work unfolds within the ordinary rhythms of the city, where it can be encountered without the expectations typically attached to an art context.
Concrete Beach therefore operates not simply as an object, but as a temporary spatial condition that subtly shifts how the urban environment is perceived. Through this gesture, the project reflects on the possibility that artistic experience may arise from within the structures of everyday life itself.