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Aggregation001-MY057
Jeon Kwang-young - Hands Wrapping Memory
This massive structure consists of tens of thousands of small pieces from Jeon Kwang-young's "Aggregation" series. These materials are old documents with Chinese characters—traditional medicine books, Confucian texts, letters holding time's grain.
The artist directly dyes, cuts, and wraps these papers containing life traces. Rolling and wrapping Korean paper, adding color, carefully sealing by hand—he calls this "act of wrapping memory.“
When dozens, hundreds of pieces accumulate, Jeon's "aggregation" completes. Geometrically folded pieces look like cells or stones, sometimes clustered life forms creating accumulation of collective memory beyond individual sculptural language.
The artist believes Eastern philosophy exists in "wrapping and binding acts." Like pojagi wrapping cloth, it contains not just material but devotion, sealing memory and connecting tradition to present.
His work shows practice where material and spirit, past and present meet. Through simple materials—paper, characters, folding—he draws ink painting's spirituality into contemporary sculpture.
Each piece contains someone's touch and time, speaking silently that ink painting transcends single lines to become vessels holding memory and contemplation.
The artist directly dyes, cuts, and wraps these papers containing life traces. Rolling and wrapping Korean paper, adding color, carefully sealing by hand—he calls this "act of wrapping memory.“
When dozens, hundreds of pieces accumulate, Jeon's "aggregation" completes. Geometrically folded pieces look like cells or stones, sometimes clustered life forms creating accumulation of collective memory beyond individual sculptural language.
The artist believes Eastern philosophy exists in "wrapping and binding acts." Like pojagi wrapping cloth, it contains not just material but devotion, sealing memory and connecting tradition to present.
His work shows practice where material and spirit, past and present meet. Through simple materials—paper, characters, folding—he draws ink painting's spirituality into contemporary sculpture.
Each piece contains someone's touch and time, speaking silently that ink painting transcends single lines to become vessels holding memory and contemplation.