Installation view of Sea Cucumber, Manganese and Ear, Image courtesy of ONE AND J. Gallery. Photography : Euirock Lee.

ONE AND J. Gallery presents Soyoung Chung’s 《Sea Cucumber, manganese and Ear》between June 3 and July 11—her first solo exhibition in five years. Chung has explored geology, oceanography and geopolitics through the objects surrounding us.

《Sea Cucumber, manganese and Ear》 leads to daily life across the water and earth surfaces, starting from the deep sea that no human would reach. The exhibition becomes a reservoir for stories with warped matters and inflections of the eyes. The events of time are embellished with embossed and etched figures, and they infinitely move to “a certain place”, according to the properties of matter. They are no less than potential affairs, a preview of what’s coming next. The place would perhaps realize the flow of the time that nothing would be concluded. With Chung, what if you follow a point of view of the substances, instead of your eyes capturing the physical substances? The Earth is hidden behind the things around us. I strain my ears, again, to the orbital echoes coming from between the stratum lines and the ocean facets.

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