Kang jiyun primarily works with installation, video, and text, experimenting with various modes of viewing that unsettle the singularity and certainty of images. They have presented solo exhibitions including Behind Closed Eyelids (2025, Cheongju Art Studio, Cheongju) and Remnants and Remains (2025, Project Space Sarubia, Seoul), and have participated in numerous group and curated exhibitions. They were an artist-in-residence at Suwon Art Studio(2026), Cheongju Art Studio (2025) and Artist Residency TEMI (2023).
I explore the fragility of the world through the processes by which images are produced and perceived. In doing so, I reveal the underside of vision that strives toward clarity and certainty. As points of departure, I draw on the fundamental paradoxes of seeing—such as the blind spot, binocular disparity, misaligned focus, inversion, and reflection—as well as the moments of delay and reversal that occur in the processes of photographic capture, development, and printing.
An image appears vividly before the eyes, yet it is at the same time a transient event that exists only under the conditions of light. By attending to the faint afterimages, traces, and empty regions that remain in the wake of this event, I seek to reveal the exterior of the image.
To this end, I experiment with screening methods that produce image conditions resistant to singular interpretation—by altering the structure and materiality of the screen or adjusting the conditions of projection—such as unstable focus, lingering afterimages, and the superimposition of contradictory images.