[Press Release - June 2021] Installation view of Sea Cucumber, Manganese and Ear at ONE AND J. Gallery, 2021. 1. Information • Title: Sea Cucumber, Manganese and Ear • Exhibition Dates: 3 June - 11 July 2021 • Artist: Soyoung Chung • Curator: Euna Bae • Venue: ONE AND J. Gallery (31-14 Bukchon-ro, Jongno-gu, Seoul, 03055, Korea) • Opening Hours : Tuesday - Sunday, 11am - 6pm (Closed on Monday) • Sponsored by Seoul Metropolitan Government, Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture • Website: http://oneandj.com/ • High resolution images are available for download via the link: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/10ZuPrWhwqXHQQ0EJ7ofb7JAngzAagNjV?usp=sharing • Press Contact: Seoyeon Yang (
[email protected]) 1 2. About the exhibition 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. This exhibition reorganizes the nine pieces of her works into three spaces along with curator’s text. Chung’s works have been produced while pondering philosophical questions about time that the myriad materials surrounding our lives have passed through. Chung said she found a stone one day, and it inspired her to imagine the time of the Earth. Her interest spontaneously reached beneath the Earth’s surface (geology) she stood on and above it (geopolitics). Erosion and deposition serves as keys to understanding the universal history of creation and annihilation. It was when her imagination extended from soil to continents, from horizon to borders, from cities to islands, to become new weaving stories of individual, historical, natural memories.