Woojin Jeon

Woojin Jeon is a London-based South Korean artist working across installation, sculpture, drawing, and performance. Through actively constructing and altering environments and objects within, Jeon explores how notions of 'vulgarity', 'embarrassment', and 'awkwardness' physically manifest between objects, spaces and bodies. Observing how spatial and systemic structures exert control and influence, he examines the relationship between locations and the physical forms occupying them.

Jeon considers the framework of infrastructure—industrial, domestic, gendered, architectural—and its psychological and bodily impact. Jeon juxtaposes rough construction materials against intimate household artefacts. By estranging objects and fracturing assumed functions, he reveals uncanny, absurd qualities that echo the discomfort of contemporary architecture and physical configuration. Recomposing these heterogeneous items and places outside of expected origins and uses is key to achieving the sensorial disturbance that Jeon’s installations aim to evoke.

Jeon earned his BA in Fine Arts from the Korean National University of Arts. His work has been exhibited internationally through the solo shows “Dual Channel Waxing Salon” (Post Territory Ujeongguk, Seoul, 2020), “After Sauna” (Gallery 175, Seoul, 2019) and the group shows “Conditions Exhibition 2023” (Whitgift Centre, Croydon, 2023), “Ways to Experience” (KCCUK, London, 2019). He undertook the Conditions Studio Programme in Croydon from 2020-2023.

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