Self-Portrait
After presenting her project at the Biennale Images Vevey in 2018 through an unconventional installation set inside the Hôtel des Trois Couronnes in Vevey, Jun Ahn reinterprets her images and stages them within a completely different context for Images Gibellina. In Self-Portrait (2008–2013), she places her body on the edges of skyscrapers to photograph the instant when the present slips between past and future. The gesture began on her New York rooftop, where the distant skyline suggested an unreachable future and the surface beneath her feet an unchangeable past. Sitting above the void, she captured her dangling legs to embody this “gap-like moment.” Her work explores gravity and the sensation of free fall as a condition of living. For Images Gibellina, the project unfolds as a site-specific installation across multiple exhibition spaces, where memory and mourning become fragile thresholds between presence and disappearance.
Self-Portrait
In the Self-Portrait series, Jun Ahn photographed herself in extreme situations, perched hundreds of meters above a void, on a window sill, atop a skyscraper or a staircase. Without any special effects, these self-portraits explore the notions of space in large cities as well as self-representation on social networks, and the limitations of the selfie. The exhibition comprised a scenography specifically elaborated for a bedroom at the Hôtel des Trois Couronnes, as well as an installation in the hotel’s lobby that played with the sense of dizziness her images generate.
