黑料不打烊

Artist Jung Yeondoo invites you to look closer at your neighbors 鈥� the strangers you might pass in an apartment elevator or a busy street 鈥� and imagine their dreams. This exhibition in PEM鈥檚 Jeffrey P. Beale Gallery highlights two major multipart photographic works: Evergreen Tower (2001) and Bewitched (2001-ongoing).

After attending art school in London, Jung returned to Seoul in the early 2000s and discovered that the city had become a 鈥渃oncrete forest鈥� of high-rise apartment complexes. Among his new neighbors, Jung observed that the comforts of urban, middle-class life had also produced a sense of anonymity and isolation. Driven by curiosity, Jung began to ask the people around him about their hopes and aspirations and began using photography to connect with others.

The subjects that appear in Jung鈥檚 photographs are ordinary families and individuals with whom he collaborates to tell a deeper story. Whether asking people to open up their living room or share their innermost dreams, Jung uses the camera to show people as they are, but also as they wish to be seen.