A Photography Exhibition by Chae Kyung

Jul 4 - 13
Mon - Sat: 12pm - 8pm, Sun: 12pm - 5.30pm

Utterly Art Exhibition Space
229A South Bridge Road (2nd Level)

Admission is free.

For more details, please email utterlyart@pacific.net.sg or call 6226 2605

Chae incorporates a unique and difficult method of x-ray photography in her work to reveal, explore and ultimately understand the hidden, almost organic nature of everyday objects in our world that we take for granted. The cell phone, the laptop computer, even something as seemingly simple and insignificant as a key ring are revealed to contain vast, labyrinthine mechanisms wherein wires stand in as blood vessels and gears as bodily organs.

Moreover, Chae fuses this novel, highly technological method with traditional ink-and-wash painting on traditional Korean paper. In her view, the two radically different methods ultimately share the same psychic drive in that they both seek to reveal the inner essence of the observed object.

Ghost in the Machine is a marriage of polarities: painting and photography, East and West, traditional and modern, analog and digital, science and art. And though this marriage, artist Chae Kyung has delivered a hybrid offspring that offers a new way of looking at (or through) our modern world.

About Chae Kyung

Seoul-based artist Chae Kyung was born in Daejon, Korea, and studied photography at Chung-Ang University in Seoul, Korea. She has been featured inVogue Girl as well as the main Korean art magazines Artworld and Monthly Photo. She was chosen by the international curatorial panel of Blue Dot Asia 2008 as one of the emerging young Asian artists who will become the next generation of stars. Ghost in the Machine is her first overseas solo exhibition, and her third overall.