Bokyoung Jeong’s artistic practice involves creating patterns and structures by arranging everyday objects and paying close attention to their materiality, given functions, and other affordances. Through this she creates graphical approaches to space – not simply twisting or changing the original use of an object, rather she examines how far functionality can extend, both as a concept and as a technical feature.
The objects that appear in her work, such as pipe connectors, sliding binders, hinges, fluorescent light fixtures, and folding chairs, are things always around us. They rarely exist alone; they appear in groups, like the hinges of a door, or the components of a building’s infrastructure. In their uniform multitude, they form part of the support structure of our daily lives. They prop up, carry, assist, connect, and serve. They guide and articulate. By performing these roles, they create a discreet grammar in a language of obvious material elements that speaks for itself.
At the same time, though, her work responds to the specific conditions of each exhibition space. Her practice unfolds as an open process, where the artwork remains in constant negotiation rather than reaching completion. It focuses on how a single object establishes relational dynamics within space, emphasizing the connections and tensions between object and object, between object and space. The visual effect of spatiality, which seems to be transformed and appropriated by the surrounding elements, arises from an attitude aimed at softening the structural authority of large-scale systems that appear fixed and unchangeable, as if they could not be altered by an individual’s hand.
