Jung Yun Roh, Reading School of Art PhD student, has been selected for Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2020.
See [Li:ving] London (2018), by J-Roh, in exhibition at the BNC2020 Digital Platform.
My work explores the realm of social identities as both an immigrant manual worker and an artist. These are very different, perhaps incompatible roles, but for me they are a reality. I want to question society’s acceptance of multiple identities. In my moving image work, my daily drawings – made during my walks through the city and that record my labour as an artist – are juxtaposed with the narrative recounting my labour working in the kitchen at a Prêt A Manger.
Jung Yun Roh
New Contemporaries is the leading organisation supporting emergent art practice from the UK’s established and alternative art programmes. Since 1949, New Contemporaries have supported the next generation of artists, to ensure the long-term sustainability of emerging practices.
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Image credits: Still images taken from [Li:ving] London by Jung Yun Roh (2018, moving image).
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