Eric Kang is an interdisciplinary artist based on Gadigal land. Working across drawing, painting, and installation, his practice centres on memory, nostalgia, and cultural dissonance. Through layered compositions and mixed-media structures, Kang examines how recollection is shaped, distorted, and reimagined over time, particularly through experiences of relocation.
Working primarily with meok (traditional Korean ink) on various types of paper, Kang creates layered images of urban structures and architectural fragments. Through the friction between industrial and traditional mediums, forms overlap, blur, and collapse into one another, embodying the tension between reality and recollection.
Container, Capacitor
2026, Meok on tracing paper, acrylic panels, steel threaded rods and brackets, LED lights, 75cm × 75cm × 180cm
Container, Capacitor explores the connection between relocation and memory, presenting nostalgia as a distorted and enigmatic version of past experiences.
After moving from Seoul to Wollongong, I found myself longing for the nostalgia of the cold steel despite being surrounded by mountains and beaches. Constructed from these industrial materials, the work takes a form that resembles urban buildings that function as a capsule for my nostalgia.
Each side of the structure consists of acrylic panels that contain distorted images of a construction site, rendered in Korean traditional ink on tracing paper. The juxtaposing materials, as well as the altered depictions, collide to reflect the fragmentation and warping of memories in the synthesis of nostalgia.
Container No.1
2026, Meok on hanji paper, acrylic medium, steel threaded rods and brackets, LED lights, 60 cm × 90 cm
Container No. 2
2026, Meok on hanji paper, acrylic medium, steel threaded rods, brackets and pulley, 21cm × 29.7cm, pulley height variable