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Ik-Joong Kang's Floating Dreams
Image taken from Totally Thames website |
Ik- Joong Kang, one of South Korea's most famous and celebrated multimedia artists has come to London to grace the River Thames with his installation,
Floating Dreams. It's a large-scale piece which has been centered in the river, alongside the Millennium Bridge.
The structure floats as a memorial to the millions affected in the Korean War (1950-53), it stands as a beacon of hope in the reunification of North and South Korea.
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A floating Lantern on the Thames,
Image taken from Londonist website |
The structure is made up of 500 drawings and is illuminated so it glows and has a strong visual impact. The Artist returned home to collect drawings from the generation that left North Korea and moved to South Korea during the war. He asked them to revisit their memories and to draw their hometowns as they remember them. The images show a mixture of emotions of the once happy and now lost homes, they have been transferred onto Korean rice paper and mounted onto the structure.
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| Image taken from Telegraph website |
The installation is free to view and is part of the Thames Festival celebrations which are taking place across September. For more information and to see what else is planned, visit http://totallythames.org/.
