NADA Miami 2021

Through a variety of different mediums, Chung’s researched-based practice explores labor and materials in their relationship to post-colonial countries, the body, and migration involving perishable and precious materials with strong underlying histories. Toni Morrison’s book “Sula”, each piece in this new series depicts ethnographic photographs of different relationships among the women photographed as family, friends, and partnerships collaged within a plethora of flora, shells, rhinestones, beads, and pins. In both her previous and this new series of collage works, Chung protrudes the figures present in the work with a protective barrier similar to the use of Nkisis from the Kongo, driving pins into a figure to give them power or protection and various color beads associated with Orishas that provide further protection.