Some Vancouver Korean Churches

Part of a series of three pastiches of 1960 and 70s conceptual art pieces, Some Vancouver Korean Churches (2015) borrows the format of Ed Ruscha’s infamous books to examine the presence of Korean churches throughout Vancouver’s Lower Mainland. The city’s architecture, notorious for its

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unsystematic style, and the churches unpredictable locations highlight the semi-chaotic struggle of these rented spaces. These churches and their precarious existence are reminders of one of the North American Korean diaspora’s original motifs, Christianity.'

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