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Sojung JunForget This Night When the Night Is No More Sep.04.2014 ~ Oct.02.2014DOOSAN Gallery New York
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The Twelve Rooms
Sojung Jun

The Twelve Rooms

2014 single channel video, stereo sound, color, HD, 7min 35sec

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Opening Reception: September 4th, Thursday 6-8 pm

DOOSAN Gallery New York: 533 W 25th St., New York, NY 10001

 

 

 

DOOSAN Gallery New York is pleased to announce “Forget This Night When the Night Is No More,” from September 4th through October 2nd, 2014, a solo exhibition of Sojung Jun, an emerging artist who has been receiving a great deal of attention in Korean contemporary art.

 

In this exhibition, three older and two newer video works will be shown. Time Regained (2012), which is based on the life of a sign painter, A Day of A Tailor (2012), which portrays the daily life of a tailor of forty years, and Last Pleasure (2012), a piece that depicts the essence of art and the artist through a tight ropewalker, will be exhibited. Through the stories of a piano tuner and a female shellfish diver, in the two new works The Twelve Rooms (2014) and Treasure Island (2014), Jun metaphorically shows the world that surrounds artists, as well as the ideal that they are seeking. These two video works form an interesting pairing in the exhibition, thereby going back and forth within the boundary of east and west, outside and inside, masculine and feminine, and the rational and the irrational.

 

The figures that appear in Sojung Jun's works are everyday professionals whose desire is for their art and life to not be separated and rather mixed together in harmony, but because of the practical issues in society, they experience a severing. Therefore, their lives are like a tight ropewalker, nervously balancing between the two sides of everyday and art, ideal and reality. Through the lives of these people, Jun reveals the contrast between tradition and the present, labor and art, imitation and creation, and reality and idea, and looks at the boundaries that separate them, and it is through the lives of these people that the artist attempts to show the struggles and problems of artists, as well as characteristics to aspire towards.

 

The title of the exhibition, "Forget This Night When the Night Is No More," is a quotation from Tagore's poem "Gardener." "Night" in the title refers to the past, as well as the labor and hand that have maintained society, and the artistic world of master crafts people. The title also suggests that although their night ends in solitude, their lives must be remembered.  

 

Sojung Jun (b. 1982) received her B.F.A in Sculpture from Seoul National University and M.F.A in Communication & Art from Yonsei University. She has had solo exhibitions at Gallery FACTORY (2012, Seoul, Korea), Gallery Zandari (2012, Seoul, Korea), European Centre for Contemporary Art Projects (2010, Strasbourg, France). Her works have also included in group exhibitions at Audio Visual Pavilion (2014, Seoul, Korea), DOOSAN Gallery (2013, Seoul, Korea), National Museum of Contemporary Art (2013, Bucharest, Romania), The National Museum of Art (2013, Osaka, Japan), Seoul Museum of Art (2013, Seoul, Korea), Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art (2012, Seoul, Korea), Pilar Corrias (2012, London, UK).

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