Jinkyun Ahu: On the surface of images

Decalcomie by Jinkyun Ahu

Displaying in his first major solo show at the Phoenix Brighton as part of the Photo Fringe festival Korean artist Jinkyun Ahu explores the relationship between him and his parents. In the series of photographs, named On the surface of images, Jinkyun Ahu repeats, reflects and dismembers his parents in an attempt to symbolise his family's relationship with death and the afterlife. The work also talks about how the legacy of the family is inherited from one generation to the next, as well as how qualities and traits of his parents have passed on to him. Similar to that of an image travelling from lens to negative, and negative to print. The familiar traces found in his parents help guide him in life.

Jinkyun work is vague and on the edge of surreal. The exhibition however is very strong and thought-provoking with new and interesting ways of displaying the work shown, placed on free standing chipboard walls and even projected into hole within the walls. The placement of mirrors seems important to the work, placed both within the work and in the gallery space, reflecting light around the space and your own reflection. 

Jinkyun exhibition was selected from over 100 submissions to the Brighton Photo Fringe OPEN 2012 by Clare Grafik, Susanna Brown and Oliver Chanarin.

Decalcomie - image taken by myself

 

Where is mom? - image taken by myself 

Sources:

www.jinkyunahn.com

www.phoenixarts.org/exhibitions.htm

www.photofringe.org/exhibitions/ja1/on-the-surface-of-images