Seoul, b. 1984

Ho Sangun captures familiar yet strange scenes encountered in everyday life or while moving from place to place, recording them through photographs and drawings made with paper and colored pencils. Chosen for their ease and accessibility as recording tools, paper and colored pencils have become defining materials in Ho Sangun’s practice; they allow him to contain moments that might seem trivial or insignificant, sometimes spontaneously, sometimes with great delicacy, while pinpointing meaningful details within them. Through the act of “drawing,” Ho Sangun has long communicated with the world—listening to others’ stories, living as an observer, and speaking about what he sees. If Hosanggeun Reproduction Center, a project he has sustained for over a decade, represents a way of remaining open to the world by “listening” to the stories of others, then drawing—his primary practice—functions as an act of “speaking.” Through drawing, he narrates what he has observed while drifting and moving through life, as well as what he has encountered by chance.