Jihyun Jung has explored a disconnected space in a city, construction site, and photographed of it. Those sites are the temporary place where exist in a process of destructing nature and creating a new base. Through such urbanized space, the artist expresses rational and cold construction site losing essence as personal and emotional one. 

For this exhibition, 'Construction site' series, photo works of multiple apartment, and 'Construction Site Dreg' series will be on display. Originally leading a life but conflicting creation with extinction, functional urban space studied by the artist will be showed at the exhibition. It will lead us to look back our environment after blind urbanization. 

Artist Statement
These days, all of community spaces (topos koinos) are on the blink of extinction. Cities are used as economic and political index and their aspects of places for people’s living, which is essence of cities, are being lost. People give up the spaces of living as they are dazzled by splendid blueprint of city development chart and economic benefit from real estate and instead those spaces are shielded by thin steel plate and consequently functional urbanization is progressing without human beings. My artwork is for space of urbanization which is shielded and can’t be seen by us. Spaces in the photograph are temporal spaces which are being created or under extinction, and they are also disconnected spaces which people are not able to access. I intended to explore these isolated spaces of urbanization and this explore is focusing on time for looking back at our living environment finishing reckless speeding of urbanization. 

Construction Site
I have taken the pictures of the construction site of large apartment complex which it is our livelihood and shelters. The site is the space where the destruction of nature conflicts with the creation that makes the base of livelihood. It is a space that does not exist before the new apartment complex is constructed, but it is very functional space which urbanization is accomplished in the site afterward.

I have represented the construction site showing rational and cool feeling as the personal and emotional space through the creative installation and discovery as opposed to the functionality of urbanization.

I have accomplished this works by exploring, with the help of the Korea Housing Corporation, the construction site of PanGyo new city of the whole Bundang district, Cheongra new city in Incheon and Sinnae Development District of housing site where are become the complete base of living.

Construction Site Dreg
I collected residues from construction sites and took pictures for them. Although the residues were partly functioning until architecture is completed, they are disposed losing their functionalities right after the architecture is completed. However, I think the residues acquire vitality and are reborn as a perfect life at the very moment when they are disposed. After residues maintain this state for certain period and then re-classified, processed and become new ones for another functions. Architectural materials are functioning and most of them are remained as architectures. However, some of them become residues, disposed, re-classified and then reborn as new materials, which look like circulation of a city. Residues which are made by functionalism failing to predict them are objects of functionalism with free formats, not garbage.

Courtesy of SongEun ArtCube