Medium and Technique: Carbon print
Edition: Unique
Framing: Framed
The Resurrection project takes the egg as its central image, using a symbolic visual language to explore the cyclical relationship between destruction, transformation, and rebirth. In the artist's work, the egg is no longer treated as food, but as a fragile and enclosed symbol of life that also carries the potential for renewal. Executed as a carbon print, this work further reinforces its ideas of ending, sacrifice, transformation, and resurrection through the material associations of the process with burning, while also lending the image a stronger sense of material presence and spirituality.
Kim JungHyun teaches in the Department of Photography at the Graduate School of Hongik University in Korea. He began working with film photography in high school and gradually developed a distinctive artistic language centered on historical photographic processes. His works have been exhibited in Korea and abroad, including in various exhibitions and residency programs. Committed to exploring materiality and handcraft, he places "time" and the "play of making" at the core of his practice, using labor-intensive processes such as coating, developing, and re-rendering to challenge photography's reproducibility and create unique works.