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Dimensions: 6″ x 4″ x 3/4″ each
Medium: Epoxy resin, photo printed on clear film
Type: Unique

Thinking about poet and writer Deborah A. Mirand’s idea that the body is an archive, Chung is interested in how a body carries time and how those carriages mark its index. Forming these indexes into physical material, she contemplates how language itself creates and contains archives of cultural relationships and how the intangibility of time and language holds the body’s tangibility. Carry On (2024) is a series of photographs submerged in skin-textured clear resin with the photographic size, 4×6. These photographs are digital images that appear when “carry on” is typed into the search function of the artist’s mobile photo album that was created after she relocated to the US. From the screenshot of the airline’s luggage allowance policies to the artist’s grandmother’s handbag, the digital algorithm randomly searches the images that include the ambiguous visual interpretation of carry on. Here, the term carry on becomes a broader term for a container that can hold something, while when the search was initiated, the term was referred to the action of continuing an activity or task. These photos are embedded in resin blocks casted with the surface of the artist’s skin. The choice of the monochromatic palettes is defined by the color of the artist’s skin, the veins that reveal through the transparency of the skin, and darker spots of the skin consisting of discolorations, freckles, and moles. Merging the index of time (photo) and the index of a body (skin cast), the body becomes a placeholder for the past moment to suspend. By curing these digital ephemera to a physical object, Chung reflects upon her own migrant experience of how a carry-on luggage and the inevitable task to carry on hold weight, both physically and emotionally.

About the artist

Jisoo Chung is a multimedia artist based in Seoul and Los Angeles. Primarily working through video and installation, she traces the sociocultural languages constructed in quotidian objects. The loss of cultural identity that is evoked by linguistic failures, such as mistranslations and misinterpretations within her works, creates humor in a way that reconciles the impaired relationship that language plays in forming a sense of self.

Shipping

This work is on view at GOBI as part of the Function–Fiction exhibition. Work will ship out or be ready for pick-up at GOBI in September after the exhibition closes. For inquiries regarding shipping, please email hello@gobi.la