Won Jaeyoun | The Work
Statement
All of us may have a feeling of “inconvenience”. This is maximised when conflicts exist between the external environment and what people have inside. Every individual has different and various channels to express inconvenient feelings. Some people directly show how they feel but others, like me, express it indirectly. Silence is one of the methods of indirect expression. Despite the deep silence, the thirst of inconvenient feelings is not drenched. While people hide this feeling, naturally, it is mixed with many other feelings and creates inner conflicts.
The inconvenient feelings caused by the “endless creating behaviours” from many artists are expressed through Won Jaeyoun's work. Whilst he creates blurred behaviours by cutting and piling them up, these inconvenient feelings still remain. Sometimes Won Jaeyoun will copy imagery around to kill the creating behaviours.
The more we read words and images, recorded by the artist, they become more unreadable, amplifying unanswered questions – a passive attitude towards inconvenience and a silent cry to “let inconvenience be as it is”. If nobody were to address this “inconvenience” it will be blurred as time goes and it's existence itself would be meaningful. Inconvenience could be another unique language – a tool of creation.
CV
Education
2011 – 2012 Chelsea Art College, Fine art
2009 – 2011 EWHA Woman University graduate school, Fine art
2004 – 2009 EWHA Woman University, Fine art
2001 – 2004 Seoul art high school, Fine art
1998 – 2001 Ye-won art middle school, Fine art
SOLO EXHIBITION
2009 ‘Take out’, REPUBLIC CAFFE, Seoul, Korea
GROUP EXHIBITION
2012 ‘MA final show’, Chelsea college of art and design, London
‘Word to be looked at’, Old college of library, Chelsea college of art, London
‘Chelsea salon series, Round chapel, London
‘Painting in conversation’, Peckam space, Chelsea Salon series, London
‘Interim show’, triangle space in Chelsea college of art, London
2011 ‘Open Studio’, EWHA Art Center, Seoul, Korea
2010 ‘Drawing exhibition’, Insa Art Center, Seoul, Korea
2009 ‘Reality, boundary, unrealistic’, EWHA Art Center, Seoul, Korea
‘Reality, boundary, unrealistic’, Space 15th , Seoul, Korea
‘Water project’, Seoul Guarantee Insurance Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2008 ‘Graduate exhibition’, EWHA University, Seoul, Korea
2007 ‘Drawing’, Boston Institute Center, Boston, USA
2006 ‘This is tomorrow’, Auditorium at EWHA university, Seoul, Korea
‘Art at Seong-Buk Dong’, Seong-Buk Dong Gallery, Seoul, Korea