JU SeKyun

Many unsettling incidents I have witnessed in real life undermine the very foundation of what I was taught in the past. It seems that in our society, populated with people burdened by doubt, ‘meanings’ have been shaken and ‘definitions’ have no standards. I can’t recall exactly when it began, but I came to think that the knowledge l possessed about certain standards and the phenomena of reality could hardly converge. I work by contemplating what I have thus far believed to be a fixed standard and distort the various meeting points of that standard, creating out of those points variable characteristics. Essentially l challenge the foundations of the things that l know through transformation and imitation. ‘Imitation’ in my work is especially visible in the tracing drawing series. For the series I looked at valuable relics and ceramics considered national treasures and drew their images on white porcelain with a pencil. Ceramics connect with traditions, and traditions exist based on fixed standards. Drawing the meeting points of art with tradition and tradition with commonly held standards is for me like venturing deeper inside the dynamics of all of these things at once. Of course perfect imitation is impossible given that a two-dimensional flat object is being applied to a third-dimensional round figure. This inability for perfect imitation is also a kind of symbol of the uncomfortable irony that the ever changing present represents the tradition of the future. My works thus express my own obsession with a continuously changing society fraught with dangerous standards.

JU SeKyun
Born in    1980, Busan, Korea

EDUCATION
2011    M.F.A, Sculpture, Kookmin University Seoul, Korea
2008    B.F.A, Sculpture, Kookmin University Seoul, Korea
    
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITION
2014    WHEEL THE WORLD, MAKESHOP ART SPACE, Paju, Korea
2013    WHITEOUT, Openspace Bae, Busan, Korea
2011    NOTIONAL FLAG, Brain Factory, Seoul, Korea
2010    BLACK SIGN, Syart Gallery, Seoul, Korea
    
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITION
2014    TAIWAN CERAMICS BIENNALE, Yinggge Ceramics Museum,
             New Taipei City, Taiwan
             White Porcelain Praise, Seoul Museum, Seoul, Korea
2013    Art and Cook- Putting art on, Sejong Center, Seoul, Korea
             Gyeonggi International Ceramic Biennale-Hot Rookies, Icheon Ceramix
             Creativity Center, Icheon, Korea
2012    A.I.R(C.C.C Resident Exhibition), Clayarch Gimhae Museum
             Cubic House, Gyungnam, Korea
             Ex-Change, The National Art Studio-Changdong, Seoul, Korea
             Doing, Kumho Museum, Seoul, Korea
             Come On Ground, Ilhyun Museum, Kangwondo, Korea
2011    33th Joognang  Fine Art Prize – Hangaram Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
2010    Work In Open Air – Gyeonggi Museum Art, Gyeonggido, Korea