La Tricoteuse
Ji Yeon Sung
Date : 2006
Support : Picture
Size : 110x110 cm
Lambda print on aluminium
In the Chambre Ordinaire series, the artist seeks to render the idea of presence and silence palpable. Her photographs are presented as sequence shots that depict active subjects in a “suspended” moment in time - an unquantifiable time and space. Devoid of any form of personal identity, the subjects only have one role to play: that of being a presence, using it to fill up space, qualifying this space through a narration without a storyboard, beginning or end. Instead of photographing a young woman seated and in the act of knitting, therefore, the artist has captured the mental landscape of someone knitting.