시: concrete poem

시: concrete poem (no.041924)

2024

close-up detail

시: concrete poem (no.111123), 시: concrete poem (no.111323)

graphite on hand cut hanji, wood frame, steel poles

installation view, Thaddaeus Ropac, Seoul, KR, photo by artifact
2024

close-up detail, (no.111323)

시: concrete poem (no.061324)

Graphite on hand-cut ottchil dyed hanji, aluminum frame55.25 x 18.75 x 2 in (140 x 48 x 5 cm)

Photo: Paul Salveson / Commonwealth and Council

2024

시: concrete poem (no.102024), 2024
Graphite on hand-cut ottchil dyed hanji, aluminum frame
54.75 x 18.75 x 2 inches

detail of 시: concrete poem (no.102024)

시: concrete poem (no.102724), 2024
Graphite on hand-cut ottchil dyed hanji, aluminum frame
54.75 x 18.75 x 2 in

detail close-up

시: concrete poem (no.061524)

Graphite on hand-cut ottchil dyed hanji, aluminum frame

55.25 x 18.75 x 2 in (140 x 48 x 5 cm)

2024

detail of 시: concrete poem (no.061524)
Photo: Paul Salveson and Commonwealth and Council
2024

installation view
Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles, 2024

시: concrete poem (no.071724),
Graphite on handcut ottchil dyed hanji, walnut frame, 111.5 x 22.5 x 5 cm
installation view at Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, KR
2024

시: concrete poem (no.071524), 시: concrete poem (no.071324)

installation view at Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, KR

2024

시: concrete poem (no.071324),

Graphite on handcut ottchil dyed hanji, walnut frame, 111.5 x 22.5 x 5 cm

installation view at Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, KR

2024

시: concrete poem (no.071524),

Graphite on handcut ottchil dyed hanji, walnut frame, 111.5 x 22.5 x 5 cm

installation view at Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, KR
2024

시: concrete poem
2023 - ongoing

In a physical and metaphysical meditation on language, Chun creates her own asemic writing through a time-based, laborious process of drawing and cutting. 시: concrete poem reinterprets the Korean shamanic tradition of paper cutting (설위설경), used to create talismans and to communicate across time and place. Chun repeatedly draws graphite lines on hanji (Korean mulberry paper) and meticulously cuts her own abstract language patterns by hand, a process echoing an inherited familial buddhist tradition of writing as a spiritual 수행 practice. 시: concrete poem reflects on language's cosmic enunciations and incantations through gaps, shadows, and time.