Jun Ahn and Ho Chang Exhibition

Chelsea West Gallery

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Hidden in time become exposed through time; Fantasy and Passion

Photograph is an image that is created by segment of time, Segment of proper time. Yet, time that strayed out from this 'properness' sometimes tell a different narrative by transposing the context, or it is reverted to abstract images by completely erasing the context. Such segment of time that is strayed out from the general range of perception, exposes the hidden reality, or hides the reality that is in front of your eyes. Jun Ahn and Ho Chang's two-person exhibition presented at Chelsea West Gallery in New York, Chelsea, consists of the hidden or exposed reality that is shown through two different segments.

Jun Ahn defines her photographs as a line of a boundary between reality and fantasy, performance to revert into a photograph. In Self-Portrait, Jun Ahn captured herself put in the boundaries between high buildings in the city or cliffs.

From Jun Ahn's perspective, the horizontal vision is a kind of fantasy. People perceive, or believe the spectacle of horizontal view is "in front" of them although what actually in front of them are emptiness. At the time, approaching the edge is the moment that people perceive the empty space which is actually in front of them. Hence the fear of heights originated from the moment of perception when vision collapses into the perception of space. She considers human beings are living in emotional and psychological "edge." Between the reality of emptiness and fantasy far away, human beings desire the fantasy, but finally our body grabs the reality as her body never falls down. At this point, the stage of her fantasy-the edge- expanded into an emotional and psychological symbol of a vulnerability of humanity.

On the other hand, Ho Chang's "There Is No Virgin Here" takes moments of desire that is plainly revealed and hides it into time. Is the woman in front of us virgin or prostitute? The image of women, like two sides of a coin, crosses the two extremes in his ambiguous photographs of abstract forms. In Ho Chang's "There Is No Virgin Here" series, the photographer fixes a camera in front of a computer screen playing porn. His work, consisting of 29 stopped frames per a second, starts off from the curiosity about what kind of form it'd have and what kind of imagination it'd arouse, when segments of the time was put on one screen, if the continuity and the context of this connected images solve the human's untouchable desire. In the pornography he photographed from 30sec long exposure by setting up the angle on the computer screen, the women reverts into abstract subject that arouses various imagination.

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Schedule

from March 24, 2011 to April 12, 2011

Opening Reception on 2011-03-24 from 18:00 to 20:00

Artist(s)

Jun Ahn, Ho Chang

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