Mouse Hunt by Seuil Chung

Mouse Hunt is an ongoing exploration and expression of the bodily images that float in the artist’s head. The artist uses abstraction as a formal strategy to convey a sense of uncanniness. Aside from presenting glimpses of images of the human body, the artist extends his exploration to systemic assemblies and interactions of different parts within the individual pieces.  

This exhibition is organized by KINK Contemporary.

 MEET THE ARTIST

“My work is about the obsession towards pain. With clay, the obsession shows through the abnormal ways of assembling, disassembling, and distorting the body in various scenarios I create. The forms are abstracted and simplified to blur the line between the representation of the body and ceramics as visual material. My goal is to shed light on the absurdity of having a body and what it means to manipulate it.”

-Seuil Chung

Seuil Chung

Seuil was born in Macomb, Illinois, and grew up most of his life in Gimhae, South Korea. He is an artist and lecturer who mainly works with ceramics, performance, video, and photography.

Seuil is currently based in Akron, Ohio, teaching in the Ceramics Department at Myers School of Art, University of Akron. He earned his Master of Fine Arts degree in Ceramics at Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan.

In addition to his exhibition at KINK, he is part of the 2022 FRONT International Triennial in Northeast Ohio. He has his work showing at the Akron Art Museum for this event.

CRAB BY SEUIL CHUNG