Hwan-Young Jung

Environment is very important for my works. I always see surrounding circumstance that changing everyday. I try to describe about relationship between them with my memory at that time.
Recently, I have been working on a photography series on the theme of manmade realities. These works piece togethe...

Environment is very important for my works. I always see surrounding circumstance that changing everyday. I try to describe about relationship between them with my memory at that time.
Recently, I have been working on a photography series on the theme of manmade realities. These works piece together edited landscapes born out of the real and then displaced from their mundane environments to become part of an idealized and nostalgic world, fragments of a dream or a forgotten memory. My photographs portray empty, still and detached landscapes that open into a world removed from time. Drawing from themes of longing and isolation, I have created idealized landscapes that are devoid of movement; they exist somewhere in the boundary between the real and the imagined.

In the project “The Mall Project; Operated Reality”, the main theme is finding my memory between reality and imagination, both artificial and natural. Actually, I studied environmental engineering in South Korea. So I want to represent photographically that is associated with my major. I am making the project by combining my own point of view with ordinary people’s way of thinking. This project started with artificial lights connected to the process of making traces. I think man’s goal of existence is making artificial traces. In the present, humans make a lot of traces throughout their lives. They continuously make their traces. However, they might be unaware of making these traces because their trace has already become part of their everyday experience. There are many traces made by man and spread all around the world. These traces exist all around us. They might be famous structures, famous tour spots, or common places. I think all these things are man-made traces. Even now, mankind’s leavings continuously create lots of traces.