• CHE Onejoon International Friendship. The Gifts from Africa
  • CHE Onejoon International Friendship. The Gifts from Africa
  • CHE Onejoon International Friendship. The Gifts from Africa
  • CHE Onejoon International Friendship. The Gifts from Africa
  • CHE Onejoon International Friendship. The Gifts from Africa
  • CHE Onejoon International Friendship. The Gifts from Africa
  • CHE Onejoon International Friendship. The Gifts from Africa
  • CHE Onejoon International Friendship. The Gifts from Africa
  • CHE Onejoon International Friendship. The Gifts from Africa

CHE Onejoon International Friendship. The Gifts from Africa


This book presents CHE Onejoon's documentary projects, Mansudae Master Class and International Friendship. The projects traces the statues, monuments, and buildings built by North Korea in Africa from the 1970s to the present and the historical background. The North Korea's Mansudae Art Studio has constructed statues, monuments, and buildings in about 18 countries in Africa. Among them, roughly half of the countries received these constructions from Kim Il Sung free of charge. Behind this North Korean diplomatic strategy of offering statues, monuments, and buildings to Africa, there was a diplomatic competition between North and South Korea in United Nations.
This book deals with the historical background and critical writings about Mansudae Master Class and International Friendship as a documentary project, including the essays of experts from various fields such as history, photography, art history, and art criticism, among others.
 
CHE Onejoon is a visual artist and filmmaker. One of his first projects involved photographing Seoul’s red-light district, which began to decline after the anti-prostitution law took effect in 2004. He also made short films and archives that capture the trauma of modern Korean history by documenting the ruins of the global Cold War. In recent years, Che worked on a documentary project about the monuments and statues made by North Korea for many sub-Saharan African nations. His on-going project seeks to create a photographic work, film and installation about Afro-Asian culture and identity. Che has exhibited internationally at the Taipei Biennial (2008), Palais de Tokyo modules (2012), the Venice Architecture Biennale (2014), the Seoul Media City Biennale (2014), the New Museum Triennial (2015), the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art Afrika (2015), the Busan Biennale (2018), the Latvian Center for Contemporary Art Survival Kit 10.1 (2019), Jakarta Biennale(2021), and others. Che was a fellow of 2013 Sommerakademie Zentrum Paul Klee in Bern and Rijksakademie in Amsterdam 2017–2018.




Hardcover 22 x 26 cm 192 pages 239 color and b/w illustrations English Available ISBN 978-3-96900-026-7 2022

Artist:

CHE Onejoon

Editor:

Sun A Moon

Texts:

Charles K. Armstrong, Che Onejoon, Seon-Ryeong Cho, Inga Lāce, Joanna Lehan, Chang Joon Ok, Sean O’Toole

Design:

Dokho Shin

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