Eum Ki-sung is interested in traces that are lost, disappear, or become nostalgic landscapes that are not easily recognized by people in systemized and standardized cities. And he intersects personal memories, experiences, and emotions to express them as a multi-layered structure and visual metaphor.
He was raised by the parents of urban workers of the baby boomers' generation, and spent most of life in concrete buildings called ChoPumA(=an elementary school in an apartment complex).
Therefore, He focuses on a kind of déjà vu in countless moments, reflecting on the nostalgia for a time that has never been directly experienced and the fundamental nostalgia for a place that has never been visited. In the blind spot near the Itaewon redevelopment area where he had lived for about 10 years, He observed the boundaries of low-income, LGBT, elderly population, and multicultural groups, among which he witnessed a kind of invisible concept such as cracks, loss, and violence caused by social prejudice.
He defines most of the moments he has experienced and witnessed as traces and by-products floating in cities that cannot be incorporated into institutionalized society, and he intends to express the results of observing and recording the traces they left in society with a cynical message.
The 'Collected Image Pieces' and 'The Scrapbook' series, which has been held since 2023, reveals the multilayer structure of incomplete and unknown objects that the artist directly photographed or collected. The artist creates irregular and uneven rough sculptures as if resisting structured social systems, and continuously images and arranges the records collected sporadically. The aesthetics of formal structures with rules and systems ironically overlap informally as if they symbolize his view of art as a single mass.