Poster image of Soyoung Chung’s solo exhibition, "on my way, baby" at CR Collective, Seoul. © CR Collective.Soyoung Chung’s (b. 1979) solo exhibition, on my way, baby, is taking place at the CR Collective from October 14 to November 26, 2022.
Soyoung Chung visualizes the relationships and order that occur in space through site-specific installations, sculptures, videos, and participatory works. To understand Chung’s works, one might need to infer the original materials, function, and narrative, as Chung sculpturally expresses a certain issue or historical moment through everyday objects using a cosmology, geology, and ocean science approach.
For example, in Tectonic Memory Chapter V, Words, glass pebbles from Vladivostok are embedded between the pages of a pile of books. Glass waste, which would have been originally shattered into sharp fragments, is gradually worn out by the currents of the beach and reabsorbed into nature. For Chung, the glass pebbles have become etched with memories over the years. Consequently, the artist viewed them as texts that could describe that memory.
Soyoung Chung, 'Tectonic Memory Chapter V, Words,' 2020, paper, sea glass from Vladivostok, shelves, Various dimension. Image provided by Seoul Art Space Geumcheon.Chung’s solo exhibition at CR Collective encourages visitors to appreciate the works in conjunction with the space. This is due to the fact that the space is also a component of the sculpture, which contains a series of actions directed toward all the loved ones, or “baby” in the title.
In the exhibition, there are sculptural works in which circular bands made of metal plates overlap, roll, and twist into different shapes, as well as a video work of the sea in which a boat creates lines as if drawing an island. The exhibited works create a dimension that may exist somewhere in the universe and reflect the cyclical process and the fluid aspects of nature.
Soyoung Chung, 'The Ugliest fish,' 2022, Powder coating on aluminum, Dimension variable. Photo by Lee Euirock.Soyoung Chung has held solo exhibitions at numerous art institutions and galleries, including the Kumho Museum of Art, Project Space Sarubia, OCI Museum of Art, Instant Loop, and One&J Gallery. In addition to group exhibitions held at Korean institutions such as the Seoul Museum of Art, Ilmin Museum of Art, SongEun Art Space, and the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, her works have been exhibited in France, Turkey, Berlin, and London, among others.
Currently, she is one of the participating artists of apmap 2022 seoul – apmap review, a group exhibition held at the Amorepacific Museum of Art.
