Sooyoung Chung

"I look at things around me. I observe objects around me. I observe the silence of things in front of me. I sometimes think that the beings of silence wander in the air and rest for a moment in the things, as if the soul was swallowed by another’s body.”

Sooyoung Chung’s practice considers prosaic architectural spaces and the everyday objects that fill them. Her painting Mondaydepicts cardboard boxes and office envelopes atop a cluttered desk, hinting that someone has just left the room in the middle of working. The Other Space Confirmed Bacheloris populated by keys strewn on a table, coffee cups, bananas and pills. The seaweed of a decorative aquarium is visually coupled with the design of a vacuum cleaner hanging on a wall. Her painterly style shifts from the hyper-realistic to the graphically stylised and she flattens out space to create depthless, motionless scenes.