Jun Ahn

One Life/Gravity

Jun Ahn’s photographs from the series ‘One Life’ were taken between 2013 and 2018 in Seoul, Japan, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, Ireland and other regions of the world. In her works, Ahn captures apple suspended in mid-air, using a high shutter-speed. During the editing process, Ahn selected images which suggest the apples simply float in air, as if revolting against both gravity and fate itself, and thereby tries to expose the transcendence of moments from which all context had been stripped. The artist gives shape to a peculiar metaphor of her view on life and death (life as process towards death) which had developed in her following the death of her grandfather. ‘How do I visualize life and death and place it before the viewer? An understanding of life does not help soothe our inherent fear; but this in turn is what lends moments born as an interplay of chance and inevitability their special beauty.’ – Jun Ahn

Jun AHN (*1981, South Korea): One Life (2018) #020 – Christophe Guye Galerie — One Life (2018) #020

Jun AHN (*1981, South Korea): One Life (2018) #006 – Christophe Guye Galerie — One Life (2018) #006

Jun AHN (*1981, South Korea): One Life (2018) #001 – Christophe Guye Galerie — One Life (2018) #001

Jun AHN (*1981, South Korea): Gravity #018 – Christophe Guye Galerie — Gravity #018

Jun AHN (*1981, South Korea): One Life (2015) #005 – Christophe Guye Galerie — One Life (2015) #005

Jun AHN (*1981, South Korea): One Life (2014) #001 – Christophe Guye Galerie — One Life (2014) #001

Jun AHN (*1981, South Korea): One Life (2016) #005 – Christophe Guye Galerie — One Life (2016) #005

Jun AHN (*1981, South Korea): One Life (2015) #001 – Christophe Guye Galerie — One Life (2015) #001

Jun AHN (*1981, South Korea): Gravity #007 – Christophe Guye Galerie — Gravity #007

Jun AHN (*1981, South Korea): One Life (2015) #010 – Christophe Guye Galerie — One Life (2015) #010

Jun AHN (*1981, South Korea): One Life (2015) #006 – Christophe Guye Galerie — One Life (2015) #006

Jun AHN (*1981, South Korea): Gravity #005 – Christophe Guye Galerie — Gravity #005