Intervals #2: The rhyme of memory and time
Yujin Jung
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Opening:
Thursday 18 September, 17:00 - 21:00
at Platform Stockholm, Lövholmsbrinken 12
Exhibition period:
18 September - 2 November 2025
Opening hours:
Thursday to Sunday - 12:00 - 16:00
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Yujin Jung
Intervals #2: The rhyme of memory and time
Ultra-wide 32:9 ratio screening (in double channel projection) and six-channel audio
Duration: 45 minutes
In a garlic factory, in a speculative future, the workers share their personal narratives about their mothers. The stories of the workers become intertwined with the Korean cosmogonic myth of Grandmother Mago and the memory of Jung’s grandmother; a reverberating voice proclaiming, “Grandma, I don’t like raw garlic.”
The factory becomes the universe in Jung’s sound-video installation Intervals #2: The rhyme of memory and time, highlighting the invisible labour that takes place within the factory and centring voices that are otherwise drowned out by patriarchal bourgeoisie and other heavy machinery. Jung, as a storyteller, appears in the film, sitting alone in a reverberation chamber.
Jung uses the technology of a reverberation chamber to echo and layer the voices of the workers, playing with the tension between the unity and individuality of the workers who remain nameless yet become personalised through their sharing of stories and memories. Speaking in overlapping voices, the factory workers embody Mago. The goddess Grandmother Mago created the universe and instructed a bear on how to become the first human through garlic, mugwort and endurance.
“I entered the main hall, I greeted all Mago, one by one. We were here together, to do one last task: To provide the last garlic to the last generation of our species before transforming into the unknown.”
The piece is a continuation of Intervals (2021), which revolved around Korean folklore and traditions concerning death. It was co-commissioned for the exhibition OPEN SYSTEM (UKS, Oslo), a jury-selected group show, and for Platform (Nikolaj Kunsthal, Copenhagen), a jury-selected solo exhibition.
Text by Eli Ståhl
Production supported by:
UKS (Unge Kunstneres Samfund/ Young Artists Society)
Det Norske Kulturråd (Arts Council Norway)
Statens Kunstfond (Danish Arts Foundation)
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Yujin Jung (b. 1988, KR) is a Copenhagen-based artist. Jung explores cultural and philosophical implications of folklore, oral history and myth through sound, voice, text and moving images to contemplate our contemporary world and current climate through diverse forms of narrative-based sonic-visual installations and performances.
She earned her BA from Goldsmiths, University of London (2013) and her MFA from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen (2021). She participated in a residency programme at Art Hub Copenhagen (2024) and has exhibited her work at Liste Art Fair Basel, Roskilde Festival, UKS (Oslo), Nikolaj Kunsthal (Copenhagen), and various other international venues.
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This event is supported by Stockholm Stad and Kulturrådet.
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