Chung Seoyoung. ©Chung Seoyoung and Tina Kim Gallery. Photo: Charles Roussel.Chung Seoyoung, who has been creating sculptural installations using unorthodox materials, employing commonplace and industrial objects, had interview with the contemporary art media and platform Ocula about her oeuvre.
Following her solo exhibition “What I Saw Today” at the Seoul Museum of Art in 2022, which featured key works from the early 1990s to the present, Chung held a solo exhibition “With no Head nor Tail” at Tina Kim Gallery in New York last month. In this interview, Chung discusses the density of objects and the nuanced role of language in her practice, which she treats as a medium to create different realities, with Lauren Cornell, Chief Curator at Hessel Museum of Art at CCS Bard in New York.
In the interview, Chung talked about what she focuses on in her work: finding everyday object like sink, minimally intervening into the object, and then bringing it to be viewed in a different context.
She also talked about the non-chronological order of the works in her solo exhibition at Tina Kim Gallery and the collective memory of Korea that is inherent in her work, and how language operates in her work as a kind of material. Chung also reflected on the density of objects today and shared her answer as a sculptor that she has to ‘make’ something rather than ‘change’ pre-existing objects.
