Young Chung
Interpenetrating

Scoping across bodies of land and flesh represented on flat surfaces of books, calendars and magazines, the viewer travels beyond the confines of an assigned body to explore an intimacy with these other “bodies” so often deemed external and foreign. The work’s visual apparatus reexamines landscape and body to propose emerging possibilities for interconnection through reciprocity and recognition beyond self to include other. Figures cut from landscapes create an interdependent and intertwining hybrid body image that flattens and merges background land and foreground flesh.

Every “made image" of a landscape conceals an inalienable trace of the projected figure of the maker. For an image of a landscape to exist, someone had to have photographed it; thus, representations of landscapes are never unmediated. My work explores the impulse to conquer and subjugate each other by recasting projections of personal self onto landscape to offer an renegotiated view cut from the outlines of an other.

Imagine a landscape, and then an airplane entering, penetrating
it, does it disrupt our viewing pleasure? Or, does the landscape penetrate the airplane? If so, what would this look like?

Text by Young Chung and Robert Summers

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