SPACE February 2026 (No. 699)
Oh Suk Keun’s Positioning and Repositioning 04 installed at the Assembly Shop 2
GM Korea’s Bupyeong Plant 2
Oct. 16 ‒ Nov. 30, 2025
interview Kim Eunhee Director, Gyeongin Collective × Bang Yukyung
GM Korea’s Bupyeong Plant 2 (hereinafter Bupyeong Plant 2) was shut down on the 26th of November, 2022, citing declining performance and worsening business viability. It was the first time in sixty years that the machines came had come to a halt. ‘MOTOR TIMES: Again, From Where It Stopped’▼1 takes this moment as its point of departure. The exhibition traces how the documentation of labour, which is measured and controlled down to the second, have been inscribed into this space and onto its machinery, as automobile parts were assembled on the conveyor belt and gradually took form. By making this intervention into the place of labour and opening a crack into industrial spectacle, the exhibition raises questions about what such an encounter can reveal. We spoke with curator Kim Eunhee (Director, Gyeongin Collective▼2) about the implications for and possibilities of this project.
Bang Yukyung (Bang): Following ‘Sosa Industrial Complex: The Factory That Builds Machines’ (hereinafter ‘Sosa Industrial Complex’), held at Bucheon Art Bunker B39 (hereinafter Art Bunker) in 2023, you curated ‘MOTOR TIMES: Again, From Where It Stopped’, a site-specific exhibition set within Bupyeong Plant 2, in 2025. As an artist, what first drew you to industrial facilities such as factories?
Kim Eunhee (Kim): I spent much of my life living in the Incheon and Bucheon area, so industrial complexes and factories were familiar landscapes to me. In manufacturing-based cities, factories function as sites of collective memory that connect the city to its people. When I began to think that the people I passed in these industrial zones could be my family members or neighbours, the factory started to look different. Since 2015, I had been working...
