Han Sungpil was born in Korea in 1972 and began his career in photography while studying at the Chung-Ang University, Fine Arts Photography department in Seoul.
After graduating, he joined Korea Fuji Film Co., Ltd., where he worked for professional photographers at the professional photography department. While working for Korea Fuji Film, he had several exhibitions. The working experience and exhibition opportunities gave him the y abroad.
In 2005, he completely finished an MA in Curating Contemporary Design at Kingston University in London in collaboration with the Design museum, London. He also finished UNESCO-Aschberg. Bursaries for Artists of 3 months Artists in Residence Programme at Selasar Sunaryo Art Space, Indonesia.
Currently, he is doing Artist in Residence programme at CAMAC in France supported from the Korean culture and Arts foundation grants of 6 months.
He has had exhibitions in Korea, Japan, Spain, U.K and U.S.A. Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts, Japan and Selasar Sunaryo Art Space have included Han Sungpil’s photographs its collection
The Sea I Dreamt...
Burying all my pain, hatred and sorrow,
Sinking my yearning and regret,
Sailing my hope and dream,
I glance at the sea.
The sea, for me, carries memories of my personal
experience and history.
At the age of fifteen, I, for the first time, saw the sea.
On one August afternoon,
under the scorching sun,
everything suddenly appeared as I came out a pine forest.
As if I were able to embrace its entirety.
The sea that I saw possessed me with a feeling of awe.
A vague place where the sky and the sea touch one another,
It was filled with insolvable mysteries
As a strip of Möbius having its eternal continuity.
The sea that I saw at the age of fifteen,
is still the dream in the film of memory deep in my heart. |
