Moon Jung
South Korea, b.1993
Giuseppe Penone, a master of Arte Povera, once said: "If it is not poetic, why work?" Conversely, this can be interpreted as meaning that a work of art must necessarily imply poetic metaphor. Ethel Ednan, a Lebanese female writer who studied poetry in France and taught at the Sorbonne, also began writing poetry visually to transcend the limitations of language, which eventually became her artwork; thus, it may be inevitable that every work of art must possess a poetic aspect.
Jung was born in Busan, studied at the Beaux-Arts in France, and continues her artistic career. Her works, which display a wide variety of delicate pencil gradations, may seem unexpected considering the rough and vivid colours of the port city where she was born and raised; however, they harbour a delicacy akin to the colours and scents of the sea that change with the daily weather, contrasting with the rough sea breeze. In a sense, this may be a delicacy that someone raised in a city surrounded only by buildings could not possess.
Jung was born in Busan, studied at the Beaux-Arts in France, and continues her artistic career. Her works, which display a wide variety of delicate pencil gradations, may seem unexpected considering the rough and vivid colours of the port city where she was born and raised; however, they harbour a delicacy akin to the colours and scents of the sea that change with the daily weather, contrasting with the rough sea breeze. In a sense, this may be a delicacy that someone raised in a city surrounded only by buildings could not possess.
