Chung Seoyoung
Born 1964, Seoul, South Korea
Lives and works in Seoul

Chung Seoyoung is recognised for her use of unconventional artistic materials to investigate the relationship between language and art, expressing a sensitivity to social divides in the face of rapid economic and cultural change. Recurrent in her practice are decontextualised words, phrases and orthographic marks that take on sculptural aspects of their own.

Chung’s wooden assemblage Blood, flesh, bone 2019 references the basic sculptural materials that comprise human life. Ten accompanying ‘text drawings’ comprise enigmatic, fragmentary sentences in Korean, English and Chinese, handwritten on ceramic sheets poised atop oversized plinths. Together, these works suggest a material reality and a sense of freedom that aligns with a broader sense of absurdism in Chung’s practice and a healthy distaste for authoritarianism.