Gravity

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Photographer

Ahn Jun
Date of Photograph

2013-2014
Technical Info

Photography/Performance
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Website

http://ahnjun.com

From the series of work "Gravity" It is made by the result of one straight shoot with high shutter speed, throughout repetitive performance of throwing apples. Through a repetitive performance, I created intentional randomness and then recorded it. And in an editing process, I selected one frame per a performance; a frame with a compositional balance that suggested the apple was being just stopped in the midway, like it will stay there forever. I am using this performance for taking one picture as a metaphor of life. For me, life is like a thing thrown into a space with gravity. It starts through a destiny of love, the process is random, and eventually faces destiny of death. And what we remember is the beauty of randomness. On my work I am investigating the relationship between performance and photography, surreality within a real world made by beauty of coincidence.

Biography

Jun Ahn is a South Korea born artist who is currently based in Seoul. She got her BA in Art History in University of Southern California. She was introduced into photography in 2006, and she got MFA with Honors on 2012, and phD in Photography on 2017 with a dissertation entitled <The Aesthetic of Paradox in High Speed Photography> in Seoul. Throughout repetitive performance and high speed photography, she tries to investigate hidden beauty of the world beyond our perception that moves too fast to observe with naked eyes. Her works have been internationally exhibited and broadcasted.
Awards

Honors 2019 Curator’s Choice, Paris Photo, Paris, France 2016 Emerging Artist, 63 Art Museum, Seoul, Korea 2013 Asian Artist to Watch in 2013, South China Morning Post, Hong Kong Ones To Watch, British Journal of Photography, UK 2011 Graduate Directory, Wallpaper* Magazine, UK