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Inness Jung
Silence,
as it is used in many contexts, does not mean "muteness"
or "noiselessness." It means more nearly
that the soul's power to answer to reality is left
undisturbed.
Jung's
work considers the idea of disassociation from the
incoherent noise of mainstream society. The tremendous
and complicated development of our material civilization
produces a multiplicity and variety of social forms
we can experience. Society gathers and disseminates
with depth, subtlety, and sophistication products
to and of our imaginative impressions. However, those
kinds of activities are blaring, cloud our sight,
and induce us to overlook the multiple voices from
"invisible" sides in our society.
Silence
is the voice of suppression which is executed upon
marginalized forces by convention. This expression
may have widely different circumstance but act in
parallel ways. By bringing recognizable and vocal
images of silence, silence conveys the incomprehensible
contradictions, but this silence seems completely
comprehensible, even normal. It is routine silence
of quiet people and of still objects.
We're
all responding to the particular silencing or muting
of being ourselves as participator of living culture
in the face of dominant culture. Jung's art intends
to give shape to those feelings, to turn inchoate
emotion into coherent thought. Rather than a mere
negation, it aims to confront by taking the viewer
into a sense of immersion that arises from muted or
assumed images of silence and images with text which
are drastic and sometimes violent interruption of
our usual state of existence.
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