WAYS OF CONTINUING UNFINISHED PRACTICES: REAL-REAL CITY
As Woo Euijung, a principal of METAA Architects & Associates (METAA), an architectural firm that co-organised the exhibition, stated, ‘REAL-Real City’ is ‘not an exhibition for Yi Jongho, but an exhibition that Yi might himself have done’. The title of the exhibition was also hinted at in the expression he used. REAL-Reality is not a concept of ‘hiding behind superficial reality’, but rather the notion of capturing something found that would be ‘flowing through the recesses of the city’. ▼1 In an essay discussing the importance of the architect’s perception of reality, Yi also pointed out the following: ‘If we are [...] talking about reality, but not talking about “real” reality, and we’re not based on it, [...] then, it means we continue to produce our own “virtuality” in the
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