You’ve been in
my mind

‘It was a chilly night, so I went home after a long walk at dawn. I was sitting on the couch, covering myself with a blanket and listening to a song. The lyrics kept lingering in my head…”that’s me in the corner, that’s me in the spotlight, losing my religion…” That night, I was not the only one in the spotlight. Suddenly, I heard a big bang noise that came from the corner. It was so dark in the room, all I could see was all of my jackets falling off on the ground. At that moment, I was thinking about someone…’

You've Been In My Mind arises from the innermost state of discrete moments to explore the tension between hope and fear, and to translate into art how the two feelings fall together, are voiced and formed. Chun creates meditative drawings and installations based on his personal experience from a living place, presenting it as an intimate but also alienating situation through fusing together the household objects and elements.

The new series of works in the exhibition develops and enlarges feelings and lived situations from Chun’s own experiences, mostly influenced by his current displacement from his original homeland. ‘I am bearing my soul, seeking hidden signs of hope and meaning, but the process is holding me back, somehow it makes me feel fear.’ Chun said. Hellos, Goodbyes (2023), is a work transformed from a cloth hanger stand. By removing all the original hanging hooks, Chun subtly attached an archery onto the wall that next to the cloth hanger stand, as if it was shooting by someone from somewhere, vaguely hinting towards something reminiscent of the archery target, revealing a wounded and destroyed relationship.

In You've Been In My Mind, Chun continues his exploration of the relationship between domestic elements and human nature, combined with both personal and collective emotions. Specific furniture becomes the medium that allows the artist to construct the complicated feelings of daily experiences, where each object opens a dialogue, which can be both decadent and hopeful at the same time, around the notion of home.







(Wooden cloth hanger stand, archery, colour pencil on tape and paper, lamp)








(Colour pencil on paper, chairs, televison, lamps, found object)



Additional text

“... You’ve been in my mind, you’ve been in my mind, I’m trying to remember someone that I have been very close with from the past, someone that I thought I could house with, being with them is just like feeling home. I was bearing my soul, seeking hidden signs of hope and meaning, but the process was holding me back, somehow it made me feel fear.

Looking at the cloth hanger stand, I always think of someone who has been putting their clothes on it before, but now it seems like they won’t be here anymore. I realised I am not that strong, at some point I felt so vulnerable when people came and went, and it became a usual thing in my life. Somehow it’s just hurting me so much, like an arrow through my heart.

It’s been a very long time I haven’t use colour pencils for drawing. It reminds me of my childhood. I draw so hard on the paper and I even start to scratch it, but it turns out the colour was still not really clear on the surface. Some certain parts of the objects I no longer remember the details of. It’s telling me I've started forgetting something, bits by pieces, no matter how hard I try to remember.”

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