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Chong Woon Choi MFA

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Educational Qualification

2006 M.F.A Sculpture, The Slade school of Fine Art, UCL, London
2002
Bachelor Degree for Sculpture, Chung-Ang University, Seoul, Korea

 

Group exhibitions
2006 ArtSway Open 06, ArtSway, Sway, England
2006 An event in London, The Plum Tree, London
2006 Recent Graduates Section, Affordable Art Fair - Autumn, Battersea Park, London
2006 Slade Summer Show, UCL, London
2005 TwentyOne, One Canada Square, Canary Wharf, London
2005 New Work, Woburn Square, London
2005 Bookable LOCKER space, Back Basement Studio, London
 

Artist's statement:
I am interested in re-discovery of everyday things that are around me. Or should I say I am interested in re-interpretation of trivial things in my everyday life?

In my work, I attempt to show something special or uncanny about these "trivial" things by discovering what is hidden behind them. My fascination of these "trivial" things is driven from how I personally identify with them; it is very possible that they somehow speak on behalf my hidden emotions, thoughts, desires, vulnerabilities and state of alienation.

When I recognise "sameness" between the "trivial" things and myself, I experience a sense of sympathy or even a sense of ecstasy. This recognition prompts me to transform those things by giving them "life" so that they, like me, can share a sense of existence, even if this process of transformation may come from my egotistical desire to obtain a sense of existence and (or) to transform myself.

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