Glasgow School of Art By Charles Mackintosh

A very Contrasting space, some rooms are very dark, some rooms are just so light and full of air. The building itself has a romantic and Melancholic context, feels like it is celebrating the unity of architecture, interior and Art. The whole building is like a one piece and you can not exclude anything, even a simple and minimalistic mosaic on the staircase is important and just on the right place. In comparison the the modern buildings of our days, his architecture seems to be all "handmade", one single, unique thing. Light and Shadow Contrasts, dark or even black wood,windows on the ceiling, - masterpiece.

Debbie Han

ARTIST STATEMENT - ‘Graces’ Series 
Artist Statement - ‘Graces’ Series The portrayal of the female nude within the context of art history has a long tradition of idealizing the female body as a subject of art. The tradition of figurative sculpture has strived to immortalize the ideal female form; portrait painting has explored countless styles of depicting women as muses; photography has become the most dominant media in shaping trends of beauty in contemporary culture. If beauty is a cultural conception, what could be a better way to understand a culture and a time than examining such phenomenon? The ‘Graces’ series challenges the familiar and stereotypical idealization of the female body by combining bodies of actual Asian women with western classical goddess heads. The digitally altered skin texture to marble-like smoothness further intensifies the illusive power of these figures. Each ‘Grace’ is captured in the midst of an everyday act, as opposed to an idealized pose of a classical sculpture. Furthermore, each image depicts a specific cultural gesture commonly seen in contemporary Asian society. These ‘graces’ are in essence, a metaphorical depiction of current cultural dynamics and characteristics of the Asian urban culture. At the same time, the intentional positioning of the figures against unspecified space and setting invites open interpretations of the ‘reality’ of these images according to the perception of each viewer.The ‘Graces’ series deconstructs the practice of figurative sculpture and portrait photography through a subversive manipulation of perception and reality. These hybrid figures exist in an illusive realm of the actual with ideal, past and present, and the oriental and occidental, simultaneously embodying all of these contradictions. They reflect challenges and dilemmas of today’s global societies. 

Lebbeus Woods

Lebbeus Woods (May 31, 1940 – October 30, 2012) was an American architect and artist.

Architecture and war are not incompatible. Architecture is war. War is architecture. I am at war with my time, with history, with all authority that resides in fixed and frightened forms. I am one of millions who do not fit in, who have no home, no family, no doctrine, no firm place to call my own, no known beginning or end, no "sacred and primordial site." I declare war on all icons and finalities, on all histories that would chain me with my own falseness, my own pitiful fears. I know only moments, and lifetimes that are as moments, and forms that appear with infinite strength, then "melt into air." I am an architect, a constructor of worlds, a sensualist who worships the flesh, the melody, a silhouette against the darkening sky. I cannot know your name. Nor you can know mine. Tomorrow, we begin together the construction of a city.

The techniques that Woods describes is against restoration or erasure, but rather maintaining the scar and creating new spaces in between as form of a scab, which he refers to as “injections”, which resist the act of reconciling and connecting the void, but rather offer new opportunities, or “freespaces”. He sees these freespaces as a network through the widespread ruins of the city.

The majority of his explorations deal with the design of systems of crisis:the former of the existing being confronted by the order of the new. His designs are politically charged,and provocative visions of the possible reality; provisional, local, and charged with the investments of their creator. He is best knows for his proposals for San Francisco, Havana, and sarajevo That were included in the publication of Radical Reconstruction on 1997 ( Sarajevo after was, San Francisco after the earthquake, Havana in the grips of the ongoing trade embargo)

Yee Sookyung

Yee Sookyung was born in 1963 in Korea.

This artist transforms traditional Korean objects and concepts into new contemporary forms by recycling fragments by recycling fragments from the works of master Korean ceramicists. Soo-Kyung makes her North American debut via the Vancouver Biennale.