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About the book >.>.> The work of Chung Seoyoung asks fundamental questions: Can you do sculpture without doing it? Is the life of objects independent of the materi- als from which they are made? Are the forms and objects made by an artist sensical or absurd? Is there a correlation between all the objects that exist? Appearing carefully arranged the thirty-three works presented at the artist’s semi-retrospective What I Saw Today in Seoul Museum of Art (SeMA) could be seen as much more than an exhibition of her works but as an opportu- nity for all those works to be together and in the de-sublimating manner of Chung’s philosophy – activate our senses for future interpretations on object- hood and space in an environment informed by conspicuous consumption and material cultures. For instance despite the artisanry that went into their fabrication the works transmit their industrial origins. The exhibition could be seen as a work by Chung a piece in which she addresses the mutable soci- ality of every material and form she has created over the last three decades. Figures becoming forms forms scaping figures When you encounter the work of Chung Seoyoung in the exhibition at SeMA there is a noticeable tension between figure and abstraction. The figures and forms of each work some of them naturalistic stay in tension versus the form created by the whole composition of the exhibition. The “exhibi- tion” is an abstract notion and yet in seeing the works of Chung together we are under the impression that all the works have long been waiting to be part of What I Saw Today. It is legitimate to ask: is the exhibition a work in itself? The way that Chung invites her works into the space possesses a very powerful eloquence and for a second we are tempted to see all as a new large-scale installation a new piece. The works have found their place in the space so it is demanding for us to teach our senses to go back to every work to focus on every form and to analyze the conditions that mak figure emerge. (MP)