INSTINC presents Pieces of the Night by Kunyoung Chang(Korea). All the works are new and are created during their one month residency in Singapore at INSTINC’s AIR programme. There will be paintings as well as artist's books in this exhibition.

While in Singapore for an artist residency, Kunyoung Chang had an endless night. It was the time of growth in which she could read, contemplate, write, draw and paint at her own pace. Stepped away from her daily life and social interactions in Korea, she had a chance to reconsider the nature of human relationships. Her work in Singapore is based on this awareness of how people get to know each other and how people can become estranged slowly and unconsciously. Using Hanji, a traditional Korean paper, as a medium for painting, she creates a subtle visual language that evokes the sense of touch. Along with this series of paintings, she is exhibiting her most recent artist's books, including 0, which is taken from Buddhist scripture about human relationships and is expressed in Chinese characters.

About the artist:

Kunyoung Chang is a book and installation artist living in Seoul, South Korea. She received her BFA in Painting from School of the Art Institute of Chicago and her MFA in Book Arts / Printmaking from The University of the Arts in Philadelphia. While she explores the book as a metaphoric medium, she also investigates her own perception of time and space. From small intimate books to room size installations, her work has been shown both nationally and internationally, including recent exhibitions in the United States, England and Bulgaria.

-INSTINC

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