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Soyun Jung

  • Textile sculptor
  • Gyeongsangbuk-do, South Korea
  • Rising Star
Soyun Jung Textile sculptor
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Bringing fibres to life

  • • Soyun handcrafts sculptures out of fine thread
  • • Her pieces are formed with layers of thread sewn on top of each other
  • • Inner questions and landscapes are her inspiration

Soyun Jung’s textile works are organic forms that contain her personal experiences and emotions. Tactility and ethereal beauty of the soft fabric she uses are one of her outstanding characteristics. Soyun plays with transparency and opacity, denseness and lightness which she builds up through a delicate process of transformation by hand and sewing machine. After she received her bachelor's and master's degrees in textile arts from Ewha Womans University, she wanted to keep up manual working process and become a full-time craftswoman. Soyun's creative expression and her energy to create stem from the feeling of vacancy and the longing for her father who passed away in her adolescence. Her creative method, in which thin threads are piled up one after another through time, resembles the quiet and poetic way of life she pursues in a remote village in South Korea.

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Works

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Someone is praying for you 2020_03

Transparent thread dyed to different strengths of colour was used to create this huge mountain ridge scene. It was inspired by the landscape around Soyun Jung's village. Since it is a work made in memory of someone, viewers may find a person's face in this textile sculpture.

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The way to peace No.1

This is the first piece of work in a series of eight wall-sculptures. Soyun Jung was pregnant at the time of creating this.

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Between anxiety and stability Ⅱ

The middle part of this sculpture is a representation of Soyun Jung's safe space, or of a womb. Soyun was in meditation while creating this piece to avoid thoughts of insecurity and anxiety. This work is about her wish of finding complete calm.

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Between anxiety and stability Ⅲ

There is a small seed in the centre of this sculpture, but its energy is large and dominant. This work talks about the great energy of small hopes.

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The way to peace No.2

This is the second piece of work in a series of eight textile sculptures which contain Soyun Jung's pregnancy story. All the works were made with the same technique and are characterised by the use of thread and a sewing machine. Each piece tells different personal emotions.

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