Eun Chun describes her photographs as “images passing through.” Indeed, a sense of motion lingers within each fixed image, and they are located not at the decisive moment but at the moment of transition. In this exhibition Passage, the artist begins with a contemplation of a particular person and their portrait. Yet her portraits do not resolve into markers that define an individual. Not who they are, but how they exist comes first. A face is read like the expression of an object, perceived like the temperature that has settled over a landscape, and spreads outward like the atmosphere filling a space — never reduced to a linear narrative or a fixed identity. In this sense, Eun Chun’s gaze toward portraiture resembles a still life in which objects have taken their place, a landscape, and the space itself.

• The full exhibition text is available to read at the venue and will be uploaded to the hompage after the exhibition concludes.

Credit

Participating artist : Eun Chun
Curated by KIM Sung Woo
Text by KIM Sung Woo

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