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Sac Plastique 1
2009
Ji Yeon Sung
Photography
100 x 100 cm
Lambda print
This piece is of a man dressed in black, holding in each hand a plastic bag, one black, the other white. He is looking at them. What is in these bags? Where is he going with these bags? What does he plan on doing with these bags? Anything is valid, anything is possible, but it is not long before a feeling of strangeness emanates from these still subjects in incongruous situations, leaving those who gaze upon them in suspense.
Some kind of explanation can undoubtedly be gleaned from the introduction of Ji-Yeon Sung’s series: “I named the series Entre-Deux [between two] as I seek to place my subjects in a situation between two moments, two as yet undefined emotions. What interests me is to make visible, through photography, the contrast between the silence outside and the internal tension of the individual.”
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.
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