AIR 2011 AIR 2011
Yun Jeong Hong www.yunjeonghong.com
Born in South Korea, Yun Jeong Hong received her BFA from Seoul Women’s University in 2005, and her MFA from the University of Illinois in 2010. Her works involve sculpture, installation, painting, drawing, curating, writing, video and performance. In the last years, Yun Jeong’s works have been shown internationally. Some of her more celebrated exhibitions are PLAYTIME, at Culture Station Seoul 284, 32nd JoongAng Fine Arts, Hangaram Art Museum at the Seoul Art Center and Mouthing (the Sentient Limb), at the Hyde Park Art Center in Chicago. Her sculpture was awarded the first prize of The Manifest, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati (U.S.A).
Project The work of Yun Jeong Hong proposed a labyrinthical pathway through memory. The installation consisted of a collection of objects in which Yun Jeong Hong expressed her interest towards the object as a container of experiences. Playing between reality and fiction, the artist used wool, textiles and domestic objects, transforming them into an immobile landscape through the obsessive and omnipresent use of cement as a unifying element. Memories, framed in the structure of a bed aged by time, breathe powerlessly, stuffed and heavy. The monumental sculpture was accompanied by a collection of pieces of both a subtle and disturbing nature that worked as laborious transformations of traces of fictitious pasts by using delicate materials, such as glass, copper, weaved textile and old photographs.
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