Jung, Yeondoo

While perfecting the fine art of Tango with his wife in London in 1999, conceptual photographer Yeondoo Jung was drawn to his Tango colleagues Patricia and Neo, a couple in their sixties who had been dancing the Argentine Tango together for twenty-five years. Jung’s stylized studio pictures of the pair capture the very essence of their passion and are reminiscent of Hollywood glamour pictures. Jung isolates their poses and heat transfers them onto wallpaper. In 2000 he installed the wallpaper and a dance floor in a Seoul subway car as a sixth month long public art installation. The artist heard later that the installation did inspire some of the passengers to dance during their daily commute.

Yeondoo Jung was born in Jinju, South Korea in 1969. He received his Masters of Fine Arts from Goldsmiths College in London and has since exhibited widely around the globe in such city arts festivals as the Fukuoka Triennial of Japan, Gwangju Biennial of Korea, Liverpool Biennial, Camberwell arts week of London, and the Shanghai Biennial. His work entitled Wonderland opened at Tina Kim Fine Art in New York in 2005.