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Joon-ho Jeon
Born in Busan. Korea 1969
"I don’t suggest any conclusions in my work. It is always up to the spectators. As you said, it is true that I see the negative meanings associated with the U.S. Dollar and therefore, I do make an attempt to represent my attitude of resistance in my work. On the other hand, however, I also represent my own limitations within our social context and lament as an individual, the inevitability of our situation."
".. I was once looking at the image of the museumized historical monuments in the Korean Won bill, completely lacking any traces of humans in it, when I found myself caught up in a truly indescribable Kafka-esque state of despair and loneliness. [..], under the guise of rapid economic development and advancement ran breathlessly toward modernity and yet has come to exhibit mere immaturity in its value systems and installations of social policies."
"[..]I am a realist, especially in the sense that I am interested in revealing in my work the lifestyles, desires, conflicts and contradictions of contemporary people using a variety of media. However, I also think of myself as a realist with an acid, nihilistic perspective."
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Gaia Alessi & Richard Bradbury: uk
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