- Overview
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ㅁ is Sojung Jun's artist book that details the questions and experiments she engaged in to look at the present through the prism of the past.
- Book Intro
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This artist book was published in conjunction with Sojung Jun's solo exhibition AU MAGASIN DE NOUVEAUTES (2020) and is based on Yi Sang's puzzling poetry. It explores and experiments with new attitudes towards the present, as seen through the past from the context of historical continuity. The various layers of history that AU MAGASIN DE NOUVEAUTES has within the correlations of the modern and the contemporary eras present a useful mechanism for a multifaceted perspective of the current day. What is needed to truly become conscious of this perspective is not a mechanical interpretation focusing only on poetic symbols and allegories, or even understanding the modern period as a piece of history. Rather, what we need is a flexibility that considers poetry itself as a mechanism to view the contemporary era, and from there developing a new kind of thinking that allows us to dive deep, fall into, and stay within deconstruction, connnections, montages, and traps. Through these various gestures and more, we can attempt to perceive heterogenous elements and expand our thinking into broader areas. The authors, who are active in the fields of architecture, music, art history, mathematics, geometry, literature, film, and linguistics, present wide-ranging results of their creative thinking, using their own specific languages such as French, Japanese, Chinese, architectural plans and schemes, and scores. These thoughts, which are vastly different from one another and therefore have gaps between them, collect and disintegrate through AU MAGASIN DE NOUVEAUTES to create new orbits. ㅁ is the rectangular, flat, linguistic screen that functions as a mechanism and space to present these different orbits. Just as how Yi Sang's Japanese poem AU MAGASIN DE NOUVEAUTES represents a deep, inescapable exploration of the work of translation, this publication is also organically connected to the question of, How can a book fully and persuasively realize the outcomes and translations of multiple originals that have each been fashioned in variou slanguages and structures? The form and style of ㅁ is also a proposal and gesture to these various questions surrounding the issue of the original and the translation.
- About the Author
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Sojung Jun
Sojung Jun is a contemporary artist based in Seoul. Through her visual art and essays, she attempts to create intersections between personal, psychological, and aesthetic elements with the political aspects of our lives. Her published works include Ruins, bouba kiki: Dialogue on Synesthesia, EUQITIRC, and more, and she has been honored with the 18th Hermes Foundation Missulsang, the 2016 Villa Vassilieff–Pernod Ricard Fellowship in Paris, the 2016 Gwangju Biennale Noon Art Prize, and the 2014 SongEun ArtAwards.
Yi Sang
Grégory Ginot
Youngbin Kwak
Changhyun Park
MASATO Sano
Simon Daniellou
Emmanuel Ferrand
Enkaryon Ang
Eden Levin
Jinwook Jung
Jérôme Glicenstein
Soyoung Hyun
- Selection
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Korean Publishers' Association, 2020, Most Beautiful Book in Korea
