Chris Ro 크리스 로

Spaces are perhaps my attempt to reconcile with both my failure and/or betrayal of architecture as a profession. I initially entered the world very briefly as an architect. But I was young and ill prepared for such an industry. I ended up giving up. But still to this day, I can truly feel there is something both fantastic and magical about architecture as a pure process. Architecture not as a result but as a process. And this is something that haunts me to this day.

I ended up transitioning to the flat surface/plane and the flatness was at times both liberating and suffocating at the same time. Moving to the flat plane of graphic design created a kind of void that I have, over the years, tried to fill here and there with limited success. But in recent years, I have begun to, perhaps, ceremoniously attempt to break out of these confines. Here are some recent projects where I am trying to see where both two and three dimensions might meet. Definitely not within the world of architecture but perhaps a distant cousin to spatial processes. A work in progress, as usual.

1, One Sound.

RYSE Hotel
Commissioned installation/wall graphic.
1800cm x 160cm
Aluminum, PVC, LED
Archival Ultraviolet Printing
2022.

Thieves Like Us

Mixed Media
2021
d/p

Never, Never Land

Mixed Media
2021
땅따먹기
Visual report Seoul
Doosung In The Paper Gallery

Both

100cm x 265cm x 4
White Ink on Transparent Polycarbonate
2021
Platform-L Contemporary Art Center

2.

Vans x Worksout
Commissioned Mural/Wallgraphic.
5.8 x 7meters
Black Ink Silkscreen on Wall/Concrete.
2021.

2, Two Sounds.

RYSE Hotel
Commissioned installation/wall graphic.
1800cm x 160cm
Aluminum, PVC, LED
Archival Ultraviolet Printing
2021.

Sound 29 / 23
Sound 66 / 10
Sound 29 / 16, 23
Sound 66 / 1
Sound 52 / 10
Sound 52 / 0
Sound 56 / 2, 4
Sound 52 / 9, 10
Sound 38 / 10
Sound 52 / 9, 10
Sound 56 / 2

Offset Lithography
2020