Kyuri Jeon: Born, Unborn and Born Again

Original Opening: March 6, 2020
Closed For COVID-19: March 11, 2020
Re-Opened: September 12, 2020
Closed: September 26, 2020

Run Time: 12:23
Kyuri Jeon: Born, Unborn and Born Again screens on-loop with Leigh Davis: Inquiry into the ELE (2016-2019) as part of 4th Wall film/video programming in Black Box for the months of March and April.

ARTIST STATEMENT

Born, Unborn and Born Again revolves around my struggle to embody the White Horse, a zodiac sign which occurs every 60-year cycle in East Asian Countries. This film explores the transnational nature of governmental control over reproductive systems, and how this oppression manifests in our bodies and perceptions of self. I use the structure of my mother tongue, Korean, and my second language, English, to contemplate ruptures, repetition of time, and violence against women. An untold history resurfaces in the present, and re-orients us towards the future.

Sound: Michael Bailey

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Kyuri Jeon is an interdisciplinary artist who lives and works in Philadelphia. She is a MFA candidate at the University of Pennsylvania, 2020. Jeon’s work has been shown at the Festival Film Dokumenter (FFD) in Indonesia, the Seoul Independent Documentary Festival, and Migrant Film Festival in South Korea. Her work explores transnational systems of control, where they converge, and where they divide.
More Info: kyurijeon.com