| The wonderful world 2010 |
| Jung Hye Ryun |
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The wonderful world 2010
Twists of one’s ideas that have been accepted without being questioned are achieved through Jung’s ause of an unusual material of leather. The scope of her artistic concerns has been extended to include the indiscriminate reception of fairy tales’ characters during her childhood, textbooks, entertainers and the matters of the ‘power’ owned by the political and the social. The unreasonableness and improperness of the modern society are rendered through the rickety structures in amusement parks, and the symbolic buildings reconstructed of the medium of leather urges one to reinterpret his or her ideas present in between the true and the false. Nevertheless, she alerts herself against some kinds of heavy and grave approaches. The present perceptions of power and institution are twisted and turned by her inimitable use of humor and commonplace materials. In the works whose concept was a wonderful world to which the artist has paid attention for recent years, the individual objects of her concern during the previous years are collectively congregated. Her reconstruction of the small world of an amusement park made of imitations reveals the fictitious structure of society and simultaneously reflects on the present reality. Those gigantic and instable structures, made of the combinations of the futile conditions and exaggerated symbolic contradictions existing behind the fun and allurements given by such play apparatuses as the merry‐go‐round, the Ferris wheel, and the roller coaster, are the symbolic and paradoxical revelations of the double‐faced and contradictory system of the modern society and put a question about the real substance of the future that we fancy ourselves as ideal. What are our eyes trying to find in this wonderful world as the symbol of dreams and ideals?
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