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Busan Biennale 2014

Outline Theme Exhibition Information Team Artists & Artworks
We Must Be Seen
Jung Seung


We Must Be Seen


Jung Seung’s absurd machines are another mirror reflecting humans. They are in lack or excess of rationality. They take the same path as modern reason has taken. Reason is not always impartial and transparent but is intertwined with desire and power. In Jung’s work machines are deformed and lost their original functions. In such deformation, however, there is no specific purpose. Like modern art, they have ‘purposiveness without purpose’. They unveil concealed irrationality in capitalistic society where an act of production is not for humans but for production itself. To discover any moment of liberation or oppression in this irrationality depends on the view of the audience.
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