Bewitched #2 Seoul
2001, Jung Yeondoo, South Korean, born 1969, C-print photograph, 2016.8.1–2
Listen to actor Hudson Yang discuss this artwork.
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Listen to the artist Jung Yeondoo describe his process for creating this artwork.
© Yeondoo Jung
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The sixth installment in Yeondoo Jung’s Bewitched series.
“He loved everything about Scandinavia and could spend hours in the library reading books on Viking history, the Swedish language, and the book Pippi Longstocking. But most of all, as a fashion lover, Finnish textile design label Marimekko was the meeting point of the two elements. ‘They are PRETTY,’ He said.”
Bewitched #6, from the series Bewitched, Tokyo, 2002, © Yeondoo Jung.
The eleventh installment of Yeondoo Jung’s Bewitched series.
“We were fishing on a pond near the Hudson river when he said ‘I love Johnny Cash and I just started writing songs for myself.’ Then he pulled out his guitar and played. ‘I just want to be a singer in a speakeasy bar in the 1920s.’”
Bewitched #11, from the series Bewitched, New York, 2003, © Yeondoo Jung.