Jieun Cheon
Uncanished Workld (Not for Sale)
My work, Uncanished Workld—An Epistemological Inquiry, is a series of installations that mirror the ways in which humans perceive and interpret the world, reflecting the dual process of understanding both the external environment and the internal self. Together, these works take the form of installation, synthesizing different media, including drawing, sculpture, painting, printmaking, texts, various craft methods.
Through my practice, I address the coexistence of paradoxical ideas—order and chaos, life and death, peace and turbulence. I created Uncanished Workld, a fictional universe named for its dual nature: uncanny, as rationality fails to fully grasp reality, and unfinished, as the pursuit of understanding never ends. Each installation serves as a chapter that describes a specific aspect of the Uncanished Workld- such as space and/or time- through scientific diagrams, religious iconography, and mythological imagery, all reconfigured into a system that ultimately resists comprehension.
Ultimately, my work questions the limits of knowledge, the need for faith, and the perpetual tension between order and chaos. Through my project, I explore how belief systems—whether religious, scientific, or mythological—both approach and depart from understanding the Uncanished Workld, which, just like the phrase itself, is described through language but impossible to utter.