SANGSUG KIM - A Place Called Home

Symbolic meanings: House and Landscape

In these works, the elements that appear as landscapes or natural forms are not intended as representations of specific scenes or places, but as a visual language through which the “earth” is revealed. Here, the earth does not simply refer to physical ground or background, but to a fundamental ground of existence—a generative base from which all forms emerge and relations take shape.

Alongside these elements appears the “house,” which is not a literal architectural structure but a symbolic place. This place embodies the formation of relationships, emotional bonds, and accumulated layers of memory over time. The house is therefore not a structure for dwelling, but a field of placehood in which relations are generated, sustained, and continuously transformed.

Within this body of work, the earth and the house do not function as separate entities, but as an interconnected structure. If the earth is understood as the primordial ground of existence, the house becomes the spatial condition in which relations and lived experiences accumulate and form a sense of place. Together, they reveal a way of thinking in which existence, relationship, and memory are continuously entangled and generated.