JANG Daeun has been interested in the origins of form and activity that transcend the discipline of linear time. In her practice, the acts of revisiting the past from a macro perspective—through documentation, conservation, restoration, and historicization—and recalling time on a micro level—through memory and reminiscence—continuously overlap and interlock, evoking a sense of both familiarity and estrangement.
The exhibition CHORUS begins with the format of the seal, an image that stands in for the body or the figure. For the artist, an image is a trace-sign that represents a reality that can never be fully reached. The object may momentarily anchor itself to a form or a sign of meaning, yet it continually slips away from any given appearance. The figures that momentarily occupy the spatio-temporal field of the exhibition—yet exist as afterimages of lost originals—function less as decipherable signs than as sensory units of absence and incompletion. The gaze, deprived of a clear focus, animates the fractured reality and narrative that unfold between form (形) and image (象).

Credit

Participating artist : JANG Daeun
Curated by KIM Sung woo
Text by KIM Sung woo

Performer : JANG Hyoeun
Assistant : KIM Byeongseok

Space construction : Mujindongsa
Photo : CJY ART STUDIO (CHO Junyong)

Supported by Seoul City, Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture