Barakat Contemporary presents Knocking Air, a solo exhibitionby Chung Seoyoung, from Tuesday, May 12 to Sunday, July 5, 2020. As an artist, Chung Seoyoung played a leading role in the establishment of "Korean Contemporary Art" as a new category of contemporary art in the 1990s.

The 1990s in South Korea was a period that saw the conservative, academic social atmosphere of the past abandoned as individualism and consumer-oriented values rooted in material abundance began to flourish. In the Korean contemporary art of the time, attention was shifting away from the conflict between Minjung(people's) art and modernist painting and moving toward the art of a "new generation" with new aesthetic sensibilities. Chung began producing work that incorporated as sculptural elements the unrealistic divides that were emerging amid the rapidly changing social climate. As she focused on fundamental questions concerning sculpture itself, she incorporated non-sculptural materials found throughout industrialized society—Styrofoam, linoleum, plastic, sponges, plywood, and the like -and transformed them into a sculptural state.

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