All Legs and Wings, Strange Sandy Eyes (2024)
This book was published in connection with Jioong Kang’s two solo exhibitions in 2024, “Here Be Dragons” and “Even hope decays....” It includes his works, installation views, three essays and two artist’s notes covering his works, all presented in fragmented form. He has worked on altering the physicality of photographs by utilizing various materials and environments, layering temporality onto images to detach the subject from its narrative. Based on a series of images and texts surrounding his works, designer Daebong Jeong created a kind of dummy book, which, by undergoing the same process of distortion as Kang’s works, not only functions as a catalog for the two exhibitions but also acquires the status of a work of art in its own right.
One day, the artist realized that the "now" of his photographs yearned to mirror the very face of this distortion. He took his pristine, meticulously printed photographs to the beach. The sense of disorientation you experience is not an illusion.
Mohee,
“Genius Loci, a Tale of You and the Island,”
pp. 91−92
pp. 91−92
CONCEPT Jioong Kang, PRESS PRESS
EDITING & DESIGN Daebong Jeong
TEXT Jioong Kang, Minkyung Kim, Mohee, Yuki Konno
TRANSLATION Malpigg
PHOTOGRPHY Jioong Kang,Dohyun Park
PUBLISHED BY PRESS PRESS