k-art in Munich
Get caught in the delicate balance of Chorong Moon’s suspended realities.
Having visited Augsburg on an exchange program, Chorong Moon developed a strong affinity for Bavarian life. Later enrolling at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, it was the esteemed Florian Pumhösl who encouraged her to spend lengthy, uninterrupted periods in the presence of materials. Soon, Chorong became aware of the physics governing her body, visualizing the spatial qualities of absence, and the loss that lingers in the physical traces left behind as unseen forces pass through material forms.
Chorong builds structural skeletons using wire mesh or industrial metal frameworks before layering soft, flexible materials like plaster or fabric over the top. Cutting, bending, weaving, and even abruptly dismantling these components, she captures the unexpected tensions and unstable states of balance that emerge within the form itself.
During her two-person exhibition, Infinity Plus One Without Answer (2023), Chorong investigated how repetition and accumulation could alter the shared AkademieGalerie space. This reached its peak in Morph x Shift (2024), a standout installation in which she suspended a massive, gravity-defying sculpture from the gallery ceiling. Distinctly relational, the sculpture morphed in appearance depending on one’s position. Even the gentlest displacement of air from patrons passing by impacted the entire form.
The need for constant modification forced Chorong to accept the realities of incompleteness. It epitomized how materials resist, how forms settle only partially, and how everyday environments evolve in spontaneous ways. Above all, the sculpture reinforced our universal status as delicate forms hanging in the balance, forever pivoting and becoming under the influence of physical and social forces we cannot necessarily see, but can always feel.
