Having to move my studio three times within a year due to
redevelopment, and walking past a construction site every day, I was inspired
to consider gentrification as a utopia of modern society. I developed images of
construction sites and combined them with images of paradise-like places where
people are making their dream homes. Construction sites are simultaneously real
and unreal; despite their ubiquity and familiarity, their constant state of
transition can evoke feelings of unease and chaos.
Gentrification and the construction of new homes can allow people to realise their dream houses and try to make their locality more pleasant, improving old towns, reducing crime, and constructing a brand new urban space. As promising as this sounds, the construction process has negative as well as positive effects, such as disturbance, pollution, displacement through rent or price increases, and anxiety about unsustainable property prices and loss of homes.
Gentrification and the construction of new homes can allow people to realise their dream houses and try to make their locality more pleasant, improving old towns, reducing crime, and constructing a brand new urban space. As promising as this sounds, the construction process has negative as well as positive effects, such as disturbance, pollution, displacement through rent or price increases, and anxiety about unsustainable property prices and loss of homes.
Caption
201606
A New Old City
Acrylic on canvas
72 x 53 cm
2016
201612
A New Old City
Acrylic on canvas
72 x 53 cm
2016
201704
A Real World, Toyworld
Acrylic on canvas
60 x 90 cm
2017
201705
A Bright Future
Acrylic on canvas
130 x 80 cm
2017
201706
Pink Future
Acrylic on canvas
80 x 130 cm
2017
201707
A Tiny Hope
Acrylic on canvas
160 x 95 cm
2017
201708
A Bright Future Is on its way 1
Acrylic on canvas
40 x 30.5 cm
2017
201709
A Skip
Acrylic on canvas
60 x 90 cm
2017
201710
A Skip
Installation
140 x 110 x 90 cm
2017
201712
Haze 1-2
Acrylic on canvas
30.5 x 40 cm
2017
201712
Haze 1
Mixed m on canvas
30.5 x 40 cm
2017
201713
A Bright Future is on its Way 2
Acrylic on canvas
30.5 x 40 cm
2017
201714
A Bright Future
Acrylic on canvas
30.5 x 40 cm
2017
201715
Haze 2
Acrylic on canvas
30.5 x 40 cm
2017
201716
A Bright Future is on its Way 3
Acrylic on canvas
40 x 30.5 cm
2017
201717
Haze 3
Acrylic on canvas
30.5 x 40 cm
2017
201718
Dead End
Acrylic on linen
40 x 30.5 cm
2017
201802
A New Home for Sale
Acrylic on canvas
60 x 90 cm
2018
201805
A Bright Future is on its way 5
Acrylic on canvas
80 x 130 cm
2018
201806
Pink Future 2
Acrylic on canvas
200 x 100 cm
2018
201807
A Bright Future
Acrylic on linen
200 x 100 cm
2018
201808
A New City View
Acrylic on S. fibres
95 x 160 cm
2018
201809
A Christmas Tree after
Christmas
Acrylic on canvas
100 x 100 cm
2018
201813
A Pink Future is on its
Way
Acrylic and c. pencil
30.5 x 40 cm
2018
201926
Temporary paradise
Acrylic on linen
40.9 x 53 cm
2019
201927
Temporary paradise
Acrylic on linen
40.9 x 53 cm
2019
201934
Temporary
paradise-tempelhof 1
Acrylic on canvas
45.5 x 53 cm
2019
201935
Temporary
paradise-tempelhof 2
Acrylic and gouache
40.9 x 53 cm
2019
202002
Temporary paradise
Acrylic on linen
80.3 x 116.8 cm
2020
202003
Temporary paradise
Acrylic on linen
80.3 x 116.8 cm
2020
202004
Temporary paradise
Acrylic on linen
72.2 x 60.6 cm
2020
202005
Yeonhui 1
Acrylic on linen
91 x 116.8 cm
2020
202006
Yeonhui 2
Acrylic on canvas
193.9 x 112.1 cm
2020
202007
Yeonnam
1
Acrylic on canvas
193.9 x 130.3 cm
2020
202008
Yeonnam 2
Acrylic on linen
116.8 x 80.3cm
2020
202009
Yeonhui 3
Acrylic on linen
116.8 x 91 cm
2020
202010
Yeonnam 3
Acrylic on canvas
45.5 x 53 cm
2020
202011
Yeonnam 4
Acrylic on canvas
53 x 45.5 cm
2020
202012
Yeonhui 4
Acrylic on canvas
40.9 x 53 cm
2020
202013
Yeonnam 5
Acrylic on canvas
40.9 x 53 cm
2020
202014
Yeonhui 5
Acrylic on canvas
31.8 x 40.9 cm
2020
202015
Yeonnam 6
Acrylic on canvas
27.3 x 40.9 cm
2020