IM Heung-soon

The drastic economic development in South Korea once surprised the rest of the world. However, behind of it was an oppression that the marginalized female laborers had to endure. The film invites us to the lives of the working class women engaged in the textile industry of the 1960s, all the way through the stories of flight attendants, cashiers, and non-regular workers of today. The form of labor seems to change its appearance but the essence of a bread-and-butter question remains still. The film ends up in Cambodia, where we encounter the repetition of the history of labor that took place in Korea.

IM Heung-soon
Born in 1969, Seoul, Korea

EDUCATION
2001  MFA Graduate School of Kyungwon University, Seongnam, Korea 1998
1998  BFA in Painting Kyungwon University, Seongnam, Korea

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITION
2015   Staging the singularity of memory, Angel Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
2015   East Asian Video Frames: Seoul, Pori Art Museum, Pori, Finland
2015   Reincarnation, MoMA PS1, New York, US
2013   Family, Neighbor and History which is a three different way to Jeju Prayer, Moonji Cultural Institute ‘Saii’, Seoul, Korea
2011   Prayer, Space 99, Seoul, Korea
2009   Invitation to Happiness. Space Croft, Seoul, Korea
2009   Letters from Vietnam, Supplement Space Stone & Water, Anyang, Korea
2006   Memories Of Maggie, Alternative Space Pool, Seoul, Korea
2003   Memento, Ilju Art House, Seoul, Korea
2001   Dapsimni Useong Tenement-basement No.101, Alternative Space Pool, Seoul, Korea

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITION
2017   En otro pais IM HEUNG-SOON – EN HUGO AVETA, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2017   Kino-Pravda: A Tribute to Prokino, ASAKUSA, Tokyo, Japan
2017   2 or 3 Tiger, HKW(Haus der Kulturen der Welt), Berlin, Germany
2016   TOWARD MYSTERIOUS REALITIES, TKG+, Taipei, Taiwan
2016   ROPPONGI ART NIGHT, The National Art Center, Tokyo, Japan
2016   APAP5 (Anyang Public Art Project), Lotte Cinema (Pyeongchon), Anyang, Korea
2016   Taipei Biennale, Taipei Fine Art Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
2015   Artist File 2015-Next Doors: Contemporary Art in Japan and Korea, The National Art Center Tokyo, Japan
2015   Venice Biennale, Arsenale (international exhibition), Venice, Italy