Kwak, Yun-Joo will present her site specific photograph installaion <Zone d'attente> for the second “le tunnel” exhibition. Kwak is an artist who steadily expresses her inner flowness and outside interferences which are rooted in her physical complex, through various photographic works including documentary photos, staged pictures and photo-installations. For the artist, the detached experiences of the segregated societies which are divided between normal and abnormal physically challenged and healthy, and superior and inferior groups are conceived as a social pathology rather than a personal situation. This alienated feeling is shown in her works as forms of twists between the strong expectations of something perfect and the awkwardness of its impossibilities. Figures of her previous works such as a woman with violent scars in perfect compositions,series of portraits of Russian dwarf actors, and her personal Utopia covered with cherry blossoms are direct representations of this concept.

For the second installation of “le tunnel” project, the artist Kwak, Yun-Joo invested the French Cultural Center space. The tunnel, a transit space, will be enhanced with various colour pigments and the Café des Arts will be transformed into a symbolic place of abstract expressions of resistance against absolute power with the images of falling fabrics.

Kim, Sung-Soo will present his site specific work <Metallica> for the opening show of “le tunnel”. Kim is an artist who is deeply concerned about contemporary societies becoming homogenized and human beings becoming more alienated. He has been influenced through his studies at the Busan National University and Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beauz-Arts in Dijon. His recent paintings show the cultural differences between Korea and France, issues of contemporary societies, and human alienation through the expressions of emotionless faces, metallic flowers and monotoned linear structures of architecture.

<Metallica> is a series of paintings inspired by the glass pyramids in front of the Louvre Museum in Paris. Since the Egytian times, pyramids have represented the human desire. By revealing the metallic structures of the glass pyramids in a closer distance to the viewer, Kim produces different communicational possibilities of different times, different cultures but with the same desire. Especially, the paintings’ visual effects are strengthened by the symmetrical installation of the existing Centre Culturel Français windows which overlook Seoul's cityscape.