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Originally from South Korea, Soyeon Jung is a multi disciplinary artist currently practicing in Buffalo, New York. Her work interrogates the intimate subject of personal memory from a multicultural perspective that is rooted in her experience of being situated in between Korea and the United States.
Her installation and video work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions and screened in a variety of venues including London OMSK, International Women’s Film Festival, Detroit Museum of New Art, Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, Big Orbit Gallery, CEPA Gallery, and Olean Public Library Gallery (Olean, NY). Additionally she collaborates with Hans Gindlesberger on an ongoing, site-specific installation, the first version of which appeared in the Noctuminal exhibition at Buffalo’s Central Terminal.
Soyeon was a graphic and web designer at Samsung in Korea before relocating to the United States. She received her MFA from the University at Buffalo. Currently she teaches at SUNY Brockport and the University at Buffalo in the fields of web design, non-western art, experimental film and video, and digital art.
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Artist Statement:
My work is a procedure for inducing the recollection of past personal memory. The recovery of memory is necessary given its destructive potential to the individual if it remains in one's subconscious. Thus, this is a recuperative effort. Yet it is tainted by the knowledge that memory is cyclical, inextinguishable and, therefore, always carries with it a residual melancholy. The use of evocative psychological visuals allows the viewer to derive deep emotional reactions from someone else’s personal memories. In other words, the visuals strive to make subjective memory into an objective experience that will catalyze the audience to contemplate the behavior of their own memory. The recollection of memory distances one from the present by directing them towards a past that can never be recaptured. Therefore, the one who remembers is neither present nor absent. Instead, he or she can only occupy a space in between. This in between space is a recurring theme in the work as I explore identity issues that stem from locating myself in both Korea and America.
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Hans Gindlesberger
