Tiffany YooRa Jung (born.1997, Seoul, South Korea) earned her BFA with a sculpture and installation focus and a minor in psychology. Her work is driven by an investigation into physicality and how we interact with the physical world. She wants her work to acknowledge the presence of a non-material surface and bring materiality to space. Using materials like clay that have very strong memories, and don’t have a pre-set shape, her work investigates how time and physical action are captured by matter to generate form. It reveals a process by mapping the experience of embodiment.
53 kg of Immaterial Body
Unfired clay, wood, HD video
Taking wet clay of the same weight as myself, I played with a range of performance modes as well as ways of documenting or retaining the action of the body. This trace is one of many bodyweight performances I have done the past few months and is part of a larger conversation I will continue to expand on.
The absence of the body that must have been there forces viewers to focus attention on the materiality and recall traces of bodily movement. The embodied traces of clay activate space between the viewers and the artist’s body, the objects, the environment, and the public to pose questions about how we, as humans with bodies navigate space and people around us.
Thank you to Thomas Mueller, Amelia Jones, Edgar Arceneaux, Mike Hernandez, Jay Lizo, Samuel Jernigan, my cohorts, and countless others who have supported and inspired me throughout.
