INDIVIDUAL HISTORY

History is a record for one of the species of mammalian humanity with a meaning as an entity group, human focusing on the relationship between individuals composed of each individual and people’s life with a meaning of individual-ego within a society they are forming. In retrospect, nation is a single-day-experience spent by someone who forms an individual history, then the naissance of human’s history begins from the relationship between myself and others, and these each individual’s experiences completes the history of humanity through accumulation. Likewise, the meaning of a day we are living in makes a mark in history which plays beyond the all words significant role as well as functions as one of the fragmentary puzzles that composes the entire history. Within this course of history, 《Individual History》 focuses on the fact that it will function as a history of humanity later on which went through from one’s lifetime to other’s understanding and sympathy. If we zoom in the scope at the point where it is easily to forget about the weight of the meaning of ‘individual history’, we are able to estimate the true meaning of genuine meaning of someone’s life.

bbb Is a group of members with Jintaeg Jang and JIn Seung Jang who are each curator and graphic designer which historicizes their lives. German theorist Bertold Brecht(1898-1956) who is also a playwriter and a poet, unveils various plays maintaining the critical point of view on society that is resisting fascism and nazism. Among his works, he published a work 17th century when the 30year war(1618-1648) broke out with a drawing the life of mother courage. Within this context, he meshes the play as the genre of literature with the period of time while he uses the descriptive technique in order to project his own point of view on society through fictional character. Accordingly, utilising the concept of literary methodology by Brecht inversely by composing their lives mythically and fictionally that will operate significantly within the entire human history and also implies the fact that two artists’ lives will momentously functions in human’s history. And we designed a chronology of their significant individual’s life.

As stated above, if we look at the individual history which we cannot recognise by ourselves or even we cannot feel the necessity of recognition as an entire history of humanity’s point of view, it does have tremendous meaning. The wheels of history with an extremely fast tempo, we have to not only cognise the weight and value of their lives precisely but also not to forget about the fact that the other’s lives also have the exactly same weight and value as ours. Individual history eventually becomes our history.

-This following extract is taken from Jintaeg Jang’s writing, Preface- Individual History and translated by Jin Seung Jang 

Curator: JIntaeg Jang 
Participating Artists: Minji Kang, Jeongbin Seo

«Individual History»(Elephant Art, 2016), Poster Design, 2016. (Digital) Print, 312.5 x 555.8 mm




Exhibition, <Individual History>
24 August – 11 September 2016
Exhibited in Seoul, South Korea
Minji Kang, Jeongbin Seo
Curated by Jintaeg Jang
Designed by bbb


«Individual History» Typography Design, 2016
Jintaeg Jang, Editorial Design, 2016. (Digital) Print, 297 x 210 mm
Jintaeg Jang, Editorial Design, 2016. (Digital) Print, 297 x 210 mm
Jintaeg Jang, Wall Text Chronology Design, 2016. (Digital) Print, 1800 x 400 mm
«Individual History» Exhibition View
«Individual History» Exhibition View
«Individual History», Banner Design, 2016. Print on Fabric, 570 x 1170 mm