Jun Ahn began her series of self-portraits while she was still a student. With what she calls ’a performance without an audience’, the artist wants to project herself into the future. In her eyes, the emptiness represents the now. She places herself in equilibrium atop skyscrapers, leaving a part of her body to jump into the void.
Her photographs are neither manipulated nor retouched. A performance does occur but the artist takes care to hide the fasteners that support it. Being confronted with such images, we go through diametrically opposed feelings: there is fear, yes, but also fascination. The power of Jun Ahn’s work lies in this tension – fear tinged with desire. Is that not what we experience when it comes to projecting oneself into the future?”
