VOLUME

In the paintings of the “Volume” series, the narrative space is narrow, and such narrowness is plainly
portrayed and yet immediately apparent to be figured out; but even so, rather the complex social relations
that framed these objects have been made more discernible. One might ask, who have raised these
obstacles? Who have cut off the space and decided the distance between the cuts and what is the reason
to do so? Lang picks up randomly the fragments in everyday life, transforms it from being a somewhat
occasional thing to being a dramatic one, and thereby he has such relationship perplexities revealing the
power relationships behind the obstacles. In accordance with the perspective of the disadvantaged as
well as with the cultural identity of the marginals, he maneuvers these commonplace objects—cars are
parked everywhere, and passersby have to take detours—or, people’s long dumbed nerves due to the
conforming to such settings.