I turned silence and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down, I made the whirling world stand still.
- Arthur Rimbaud -
Sun Jaegal studied Visual Communication in Royal College of Art(MA, London) after graduating with Master’s and bachelor’s degrees in graphic design from Ewha Womans University(Seoul, Korea). She experiments with various interdisciplinary media from graphic design to video installation. Her recent practice is more concerned with traditional Korean painting with personal writing and distorted text forms along with photography of her personal everyday objects.
The endless searching for comfort feeds into Jaegal’s work process; capturing, distorting and reconstructing text materials. Text becomes a ‘transposed-body’ replacing the excruciation she felt with her body and her painting becomes a ‘transposed-landscape’ depicting the longings toward ‘the beyond’. It aligns with her struggles to grasp fleeting absurdity of the reality. She writes and paint the words of everyday impression in an effort to make those evanescent moments concrete and clear. Involving rather repetitive and laborious processes of Korean painting, Jaegal considers her work as a meditation seeking solace. It is a similar endeavour of transcribing the Bible over and over again like an enchantment.
