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Once upon a time in somewhere
Jung Jin2025.02.25 ~ 2025.05.07
Description of the work
- Media acrylic on canvas
- Location SIGNIEL BUSAN Lobby
There is a place for the unapproved, evicted, forgotten, and vanished in works of Jung Jin. Starting from her personal experience and expanding out into a social context, in her process, she fixates what she has encountered on the canvas in a quiet tone, like writing down a personal diary. However, it doesn’t actually seem like a diary, which is usually event-centric, but like a series of everyday happenings too trivial to be captured in a concrete form. In this respect, as an attempt to understand the world surrounding her, she engages with materials that she finds, and turns them into tools for making art works. Starting from the matter of selecting a tool for painting, her concerns stretch out to the matter of the images she creates with the tool. She, for example, starts to work by unfolding a paper that she was given, and then fills out the paper with random, unappreciated things that she found while roaming around the area where she started unfolding the paper.
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About the author
Jung Jin, who graduated from Seoul National University, creates multilayered paintings that are both physically and narratively complex. She often superimposes two-dimensional images reminiscent of graphic design on top of landscapes that adhere to the rules of perspective, and She also brings characters from mythology and fairy tales. The multiple layers of images that traverse different time and space within a single canvas, combined with the vibrant color, create tension. The fairy-tale-like scenes that appear in the personal landscapes reflect the artist's anxieties, rendering the viewer's gaze ambiguous.
Jung Jin (1984~ , Korea)
B.F.A, Dept. of Painting, Seoul National University
M.F.A, Dept. of Painting, Seoul National University
M.F.A, Dept. of Painting, Seoul National University
