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La Tricoteuse
2006
Ji Yeon Sung
Photography
110 x 110 cm
Lambda print on aluminium
In the Chambre Ordinaire series, the artist seeks to render the idea of presence and silence palpable. Her photographs are presented as sequence shots that depict active subjects in a “suspended” moment in time - an unquantifiable time and space. Devoid of any form of personal identity, the subjects only have one role to play: that of being a presence, using it to fill up space, qualifying this space through a narration without a storyboard, beginning or end. Instead of photographing a young woman seated and in the act of knitting, therefore, the artist has captured the mental landscape of someone knitting.
Ji Yeon Sung
South Korea
Born in 1976
Born in Jochiwon, South Korea
Lives and works in Paris since 2000.
Lives and works in Paris since 2000.
Sung Ji-Yeon began studying photography in France from 1999 after studying literature in South Korea. Within a short few years, she created her own style, particularly in portraiture. Her photographs wield a force that absorbs the viewer in the same way as the photographs’ subjects. More than representing a subject, Sung’s work is an expression of both presence and silence.
In her photographs, she creates a dialogue between the codes of classical painting and contemporary photography. By bringing new life to the genre, she reminds the viewer that a portrait is above all a depiction of the soul, a means of memory and a task of introspection, as executed to perfection by Vermeer in the seventeenth century.
Artworks of
Ji-Yeon Sung
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