Betaalbaar Hyun-Sook Song: Where at Home – Paint or Die – Song Hyun-Sook; Jochen Hiltmann

Impressive biography of South Korean artist Hyun-Sook Son What role do home and cultural identity play in art? Long before she received international recognition as a painter, Hyun-Sook Song came to West Germany from South Korea as a simple migrant worker in the 1970s. She initially works as a nurse and experiences everyday xenophobia in the democratic Federal Republic. During this time, drawing and writing letters and diaries brought about a profound change for her life: the calligraphed signs in her m…