Installation view of 《CHORUS》 ©Primary Practice
Primary Practice presents a solo exhibition
《CHORUS》 by artist JANG Daeun,
on view through December 7.
JANG Daeun has been interested in the
origins of form and activity that transcend the discipline of linear time. In
her practice, the acts of revisiting the past from a macro perspective—through
documentation, conservation, restoration, and historicization—and recalling
time on a micro level—through memory and reminiscence—continuously overlap and
interlock, evoking a sense of both familiarity and estrangement.
The exhibition 《CHORUS》 begins with the format of the seal, an image that stands in for the
body or the figure. For the artist, an image is a trace-sign that represents a
reality that can never be fully reached. The object may momentarily anchor
itself to a form or a sign of meaning, yet it continually slips away from any
given appearance.
The figures that momentarily occupy the
spatio-temporal field of the exhibition—yet exist as afterimages of lost
originals—function less as decipherable signs than as sensory units of absence
and incompletion. The gaze, deprived of a clear focus, animates the fractured
reality and narrative that unfold between form (形) and
image (象).
