Contents of the exhibition
After a series of exhibitions on modern society and the city such as Unplugged Theater, Public Information: Distopia Seoul, Jung Hoon reveals this time the phenomenon of self-dissociation of modern man by showing the meandering through which he has tried to find his own identity. What is to mark is, then, that by the identity he means the one formed based on memories, specifically, of his earlier appearances in mass media. He brings into the relief the self descriptive phenomenon of dissociation by means of the form of display, which links straight photos to abstract color-fields.
Private Space consists of abstract color-field paintings of amorphous space in memory and photographic representations of spaces of modern occult – dressing room, broadcasting studio, auditorium. As having been a member of a rock group Girls, Jung Hoon used to show up on mass media, and such an experience offered him chances to perceive the fact that he is divided into himself in real and his image in media. The title of current exhibition Private Space means not a real private space of the artist but the space of his reflected image(or simulacre) appeared in mass media.
The exhibition shows abstract canvases My Hair and My Eye, and a straight photo Identicalness. My Hair represents a particular color immanent in memory. Floating amorphous layers on the ground of main color express a space where the artist unites emotionally with his objectively perceived image, and that starts from photographic data in which ‘Jung Hoon as a simulacre’ was filmed. The works are to be complete through extreme enlargement and condensation, that make the images to keep the inner tension, in which the depth is finally broken and ambiguous but natural movement emerges.
The artist tired to be absorbed in his inner world, though the interior absorption in modern society appears as images of excessive primary colors, which, ironically, are universal colors of material culture rather than private. In Identicalness he represents places where ‘Jung Hoon as a simulacre’ resides and is created, and traces of that process in a mode of document as if it is about a life of someone else. An electric bulb that appears every now and then symbolizes a light questioning the essence of self-being, while personal objects –like Jung Hoon’s possessions or photos- are engaged here as fragments of the reality for representing a imaginary object. That is to reveal the identity, in which Jung Hoon in real and Jung Hoon used to be as illusion coexist.
This work put the photograph in a geometrical frame in order to set free the primary semantics of image on a two-dimensional plane. The geometrical figure of the frame and the photograph inside configure a external meaning without allowing a hierarchical relation between themselves. |
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