press release

(ENG) àngels barcelona is pleased to present for the first time in a gallery the work of IM Heung-soon (b. 1969), the Korean artist who obtained the Silver Lion for Promising Young Artist during the last edition of the Venice Biennale with his work Factory Complex (2014-15). Staging the singularity of memory presents Factory Complex (2014-15) and Reincarnation (2015), by which he explores the impact of Korea’s modernisation in its social fabric as well as the burden of grief left on women who have survived the trauma of war in recent history.