Chae Won Moon

Statement

As I moved from city to city, and country to country, the process of adoption became crucial to me to make myself comfortable in the environment; knowing about the situation around me and dealing with daily tasks were basic but most hard to learn. For me, language was the method that helped me to learn about the surroundings and also the blockage that fades the original meaning of conversation. As I use the language that I don’t understand completely, I started to involve loose connections among signs and their meanings in the work. The situation that is considered as an error in successful communication, such as fragmented sentences, the result opposed to the expectation, or misread information work as a key role in my practice. The series of work features playfulness, sarcasm and allusion, which conflict with delivering direct and clear messages.

I picture the aspect of failure and misunderstanding in the communication as pseudo manuals. During the collecting process, I borrow formats and contents of the significant that is supposed to deliver a clear message or direction. I scatter them and combine them into logically and linguistically conflictive images which are unclear, half finished or vague.

GlogauAIR Project

The project will be based on the instructional diagrams and sentences associated with safety, warnings or suggestions which are designed to lead users to more stable and less dangerous status. The documents full with steps and orders let us expect certain results; we can imagine finished work from following the instruction manual, and try to avoid the mistakes in the process. When it comes to the real world, mistakes and misunderstanding take more part than flawless outcomes. My work reflects inevitable failure and vagueness that I experienced in the comprehension process. The images I compose are intentionally coordinated to show not so helpful, ridiculous and ambiguous systems. Painting is the medium that I use often to express the idea, but depending on the condition of surroundings and stimulation I get, I choose different methods. During the project, I would like to collect the instructional matters and develop them into a series of painting, sculpture and embroidery works. The source of information will vary, including where I currently stay and the city where the residency takes place. Engaging with the environment, I will parallel collect objects that have a loose connection with the work I make. Through the process of intertwining, I would like to allow myself to explore more about nuanced relationships among goal-oriented systems, irony, and humor.

CV Summary

Education

• 2019 MFA Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, USA. Major Fine Arts, Painting and Drawing
• 2015 BFA Kookmin University, Seoul, Korea. Major Fine Arts, Painting

Awards & Grant

• 2020 Jeonbuk Young Artist 2021
• Foundation of Contemporary Arts Emergency Grants COVID-19 Fund
• 2019 AHL Foundation Artist Fellowship

Solo Exhibition

• 2021 “Don’t escape the grass field”, Jeonbuk Museum of Art, Jeonju, Korea
• 2019 “How To Make A Perfect Pancake”, Steuben Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
• 2016 “Collapsed Perfection”, Sum Gallery, Jeonju, Korea

Group Exhibition

• 2020 “Keep for Old Memoirs”, Young Space (online)
• “Vitamin K”, AHL Foundation (online)
• “Ways to Tell”, Clamplight Gallery, San Antonio, TX
• 2019 “Unsolicited Submissions”, Ejecta Projects, Carlisle, PA
• “Priority Mail”, Ground Floor Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
• “North//East”, CIRCA Gallery, Minnesota, MN
• “Mostly Fine Adults”, Pfizer Building, Brooklyn, NY
• “All In”, Pratt Institute Manhattan Gallery, New York, NY
• “Reaching Into Transformation”, CP Project Space, New York, NY
• “Jet Lag”, Steuben Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
• 2018 “Jaceb Tivc”, Pfizer Building, Brooklyn, NY
• “Uncanny Valley Ranch”, Pfizer Building, Brooklyn, NY
• “Big Painting Show”, Steuben Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
• 2017 “Passion. Connected. 100×100”, Korean Cultural Center, New York, NY
• 2015 “Limbo”, Kookmin Art Gallery, Seoul, Korea
• “Crossable Parallel”, Kookmin Art Gallery, Seoul, Korea

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