Jung Yeondoo
Jung Yeondoo focuses on photography, video, and other media works in which performance appears both directly and indirectly. Interweaving memory and representation, reality and fiction, his practice moves fluidly between visual art and performance, documentary and fiction, revealing how the very way we perceive the world is both unstable and profoundly creative.
Cinemagician
2009, Two-channel video, color, sound (stereo) and silent, 50 min 31 sec each
Cinemagician was inspired by filmmaker and magician Georges Méliès. What unfolds on stage becomes a live performance, while the recorded footage is simultaneously projected to the audience as if it were a completed film. A video filmed over fifty minutes is screened in its entirety for the same duration. Within this doubled structure, where production and outcome coincide precisely, the boundary between reality and fiction is continuously unsettled.
Bewitched
2001-, Single-channel video 4K, 26 min 42 sec
Bewitched was created through a journey across fourteen countries, where the artist asked ordinary people a simple question: "If a magician could grant you any wish, what would you ask for?" Their wishes were then realized as photographs. Through different approaches, the two works pose the same question: Where does the boundary between reality and fiction lie?
