Poppy Dongxue Wu

Every Second In Between explores how the rise of privately owned public space increasingly blurs the boundaries between public and private experience by capturing the changing flows of people, traffic and information within the shifting landscape of massive regeneration. Artist Kyung Hwa Shon demonstrates how people in White City are forming connections within this rapidly evolving urban environment. Every Second  In Between also questions the balance between individual encounter and mass participation within the daily flow and collective movements of crowds.

Inspired by the writer Charles Baudelaire's 19th century concept of flânerie (the practice of walking in the city), and Paul Auster's The New York Trilogy, Kyung Hwa Shon created the fictional, faceless and genderless character of 'Stillman'. Much like the concept of flânerie and through 'Stillman', Shon captures the human experience of walking through cityscapes, occupying urban space and what lies in between personal and communal experience when moving through the city.

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