□ Stay in 2021
□ E-mail : meun.chun@gmail.com
□ URL : www.chuneun.com
Chun Eun produces photographic records of how people like amateur astronomers, foley artists, the hearing-impaired, visually-impaired, sculptors and gymnasts, to name a few, overcome and expand their world. She holds M.F.A in photography at Université Paris VIII(2009), and B.A. in sculpture at Chung-Ang University(2002). She has held solo exhibitions including «Glider»(2020, GALLERY2, Seoul). She won the Excellence Prize at SongEun Art Award from SongEun Art and Cultural Foundation, Seoul, Korea(2018) and Amado Photography Award from Amado Art Space, Seoul, Korea(2017).
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Chun Eun’s photographs point beyond the phenomenon exposed before our eyes, indicating far beyond the envelope of images, enabling us to explore the a priori/a posteriori connections and imaginations. That is why, the images photographically captured by the artist transcend the immobile, figurative beauty of subjects, inviting the audience into the universe of an expanded state. The subjects in her photos are not images in a still state but sensations aspiring to reach somewhere. Images of the surface awaken multi-layered sensations, questioning ways to achieve visual perception, while delicately capturing the views and desires of a specific subject, to reveal the most secretive and dramatic moments. Chun used to enable the association of time, whose vitality newly bursts from the still, withdrawn images of landscapes of some season or feelings of a highly advanced vitality released by an individual standing at one extreme of the senses based on the works left behind by a sculptor. The artist’s photographs, akin to the time from a scene of a literary or cinematographic work, melodies of music or affectionate conversations, allow for a synchronized focus on the unique expressions exhibited by the subjects inside the still screen, also the moment their senses condense and collide into vitality, and furthermore the gaze of the photographer who is capturing all this.
- <Discovering the Universe from Them>, Kim Sung woo
Education
2009 Master d’Arts, Spécialité Photographie, Université Paris VIII, St Denis, France
2002 BFA, Sculpture, Chung-Ang University, Seoul, Korea
Solo Exhibition
2020 Glider, Gallery2, Seoul, Korea
2019 Floor, SeMA Storage, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2018 When the Room Became Pitch Black, It Began to Snow, BMW Photo Space, Busan, Korea
2017 The Guide, Amado Art Space, Seoul, Korea
2014 Searching for the Photograph, Old House, CAN Foundation, Seoul, Korea
2014 The Photography Is the Retina of Scholars, Kumho Gallery, U-Square Cultural Center, Gwangju, Korea
2013 Transit of Venus Across the Retina, Place Mak, Seoul, Korea
2010 Je Regarde, Bibliothèque Chaptal de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
Projects
2016 Geum-gok, the Memorious, Gyeonggi Blind Union, Namyangju, Korea
2015 A Certain Photograph, Seoul Art Space Seongbuk, Seoul, Korea
2015 Trees and Forest : Talking Hands Meet Reading Hands, Another Way of Seeing, Seoul, Korea
2014 Blackbox Recorder, Seoul Art Space Seongbuk, Seoul, Korea
2014 The Child, Reading a Different Poem, Another Way of Seeing, Seoul, Korea
2010 Journée Mondiale des Sourds 2010, M.A.I.N.S, Paris, France
Group Exhibition
2020 Underneath the Postures, Whistle, Seoul, Korea
2020 Collecting for All, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2020 Tracing Detouring Piercing, Hakgojae Cheongdam, Seoul, Korea
2019 Songs from the Memory, Kyobo Art Space, Seoul, Korea
2019 Intermission, Space CAN, Seoul, Korea
2019 The Senses ; Breathe between Excess and Deficiency, Total Museum, Seoul, Korea
2019 Live Forever, HITE Collection, Seoul, Korea
2019 The Flaneur in Another Time, Museum SAN, Wonju-si, Korea
2019 Contemporary Korean Abstract : Series Two, Chapter II, Seoul, Korea
2019 The Sea Will Not Sink, Ansan Culture and Arts Center, Ansan, Korea / Art Space Boan, Seoul, Korea
2019 Pick Your Pic, This Weekend Room + Seoullo Media Cnavas, Seoul, Korea
2019 What Is Cotemporary Art ?, Daegu Art Factory, Daegu, Korea
2018 SongEun Art Award, SongEun Art Space, Seoul, Korea
2018 And Never Said a Word, OCI Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2018 Gyeonggi Millennium Docufesta, Gyeonggi Sangsang Campus, Suwon, Korea
2018 Meta Pics, U Art Space, Seoul, Korea
2018 Still There, Sidae Yeogwan, Seoul, Korea
2018 Heaven, Earth & Man, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2018 We Are Star Stuff, Doosan Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2017 The Boutographies: Rencontres Photographiques de Montpellier, Pavillon Populaire, Montpellier, France
2017 The Scrap, Samyuk BD, Seoul, Korea
2017 It’s Not Art, The Pollack, Daegu, Korea
2017 I Love You, I Love You Not, Hite Collection, Seoul, Korea
2017 Method of Curing, Mi-in-do, Seongbuk Cultural Foundation, Seoul, Korea
2017 Intro, MMCA Residency Goyang, Goyang, Korea
2016 April the Eternal Voyage, Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Ansan, Korea
2016 Marbures+Photographies, Galerie de l’Atelier des Bernardins au Vert, Moulin Engilbert, France
2015 Time Collector, Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Ansan, Korea
2015 23c Ocean Arts Research Lab, Artist House, Arts Council Korea, Seoul, Korea
2015 Alohomora Aparecium Mia-ri the Texas, The Texas Project, Seoul, Korea
2013 Death of a Star, Mediacube 338, Gwangju, Korea
2011 Searching for Oasis, Gallery Banditrazos, Seoul, Korea
2010 Focus, Ville Ouverte ; Les Douches La Galerie, Paris, France
Awards & Grants
2019 SeMA Emerging Artists & Curators Supporting Program, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2018 Excellence Prize, SongEun Art Award, SongEun Art and Cultural Foundation, Seoul, Korea
2017 Winner, Amado Photography Award, Amado Art Space, Seoul, Korea
2017 Official Selection, Les Boutographies, Montpellier, France
2016 Gyeonggi Cultural Foundation ; Northern Cultural Agency, Korea
2015 The Life and Change : Gyeonggi Cultural Foundation, Korea
2014 Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture, Korea
Residencies
2021 12th Seoul Art Space Geumcheon, Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture
2020 14th SeMA Nanji Residency, Seoul Museum of Art, Korea
2017 13th Goyang Residency, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea
2015 5th Seoul Art Space Seongbuk, Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture, Korea
2014 4th Seoul Art Space Seongbuk, Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture, Korea
Collection
Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Ansan, Korea
Daegu Art Museum, Daegu, Korea
GoEun Museum of Photography, Busan, Korea
OCI Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
Gyeonggi Cultural Foundation, Korea
SongEun Art and Cultural Foundation, Seoul, Korea
Art Bank, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea
Floor #1
2018, Archival pigment print, 108x144cm
Floor #5
2019, Archival pigment print, 108x144cm
Glider - Circles VI
2019, Archival pigment print, 60x80cm
The Guide
2017, Archival pigment print
