NYAB Event - Jina Chung "Diary"

Jina Chung "Diary"

Elga Wimmer PCC

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For the past 10 years Jina Chung has been dealing with ambivalence in her work. And this ambivalence is the experience of having thoughts or emotions of both a positive and negative nature simultaneously.

In 2000, Chung began her journey in pursuit of contradiction and in her series of The Poop Tale Chung showed sculptures in an enlarged shape of excrement, covered with feminine ornaments or clothing and subsidiary materials. This work evidences a state of disturbance of an extremely heterogeneous order such as disgust vs pleasure. It also offers us a decorative aspect with brilliant colors and tactility superimposed onto the vulgar subject in order to disturb conventions and induce humor. The next series entitled The Manic-Depression, of a Voracious Reader a work on paper, restores the vulgar to the beautiful by using words leading us to sympathize with the human condition. These sentences enhance the spirit of jest through a subversion of solemnity.

And then finally Jina Chung became interested in contemplating the insignificance of daily life by depicting it lightly with frivolous materials such as push pins, stainless steel, plaster and magnets, etc. They comprise a confession of what she witnesses in her daily life and the moments of indulgence from the art making process thus making the usage of text become more visible. Recently, Chung is using text, suggesting that it can be perceived differently through the use of contradictory materials. Irony and contrast are the key principles of her works. Chung’s art reflects her adoption of ambivalence as seen in her transgressive means and understanding of the condition of our times.

Jina Chung earned a BFA in Sculpture at Hong Ik University and an MFA in Sculpture at Hong Ik University and the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. Chung also earned a Ph.D. in the Science of Fine Art from Hong Ik University. She has had numerous solo and group shows in prestigious galleries and museums in Asia such as Seoul City Museum of Art, Sejong Art Center, Beijing Central Academy of Art, Aichi Prefectural Museum in Nagoya and was included in the 2009 International Incheon Female Artists Biennial.

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