Gayoung Jun

I explore the structure of time through painting and sculpture, working with geometric abstraction as a language to express immateriality. My process involves building transparent layers of mineral pigment on unprimed canvas, applying and wiping the surface repeatedly so that each layer leaves only a trace—staining the fabric with what remains. These layers are not visual spaces but temporal structures: each one a moment, a logic, a density of time. The forms in my work—often elliptical or circular—symbolize orbits, cycles, or the smallest indivisible units of time. I consider time not as a continuous flow but as something fragmented, folding and unfolding, dense and porous. My sculptures, made from curved folding of paper, further investigate this idea. Inspired by Bauhaus paper exercises, they embody time as form: fragile, mutable, and open to reconfiguration. My work does not illustrate time but gives it a structure. It is as much a diagram of my perception as it is a visual object. The layering becomes a protocol, a manual of thinking—where time particles pass through every layer, leaving behind a translucent history. I am interested in how perception records time not linearly but in accumulation, in echoes, in transparency. My practice began from a personal sensation—that the density of time feels different between Seoul and New York. That experience continues to shape the way I approach abstraction: as a record of temporality, not just form.