For the RCA MA Painting Degree Show,

 

Yujin Jung presented Blue Aperture, a 120 × 150 cm oil painting

accompanied by three small 10 × 10 × 4 cm paintings installed around the space.

 

Blue Aperture began from a Google satellite view of the sea.

 

Jung first constructed the image as a large blue field, building a surface that could be read as water, distance, or texture.

Over this, she layered forms based on people sitting in a circle.

 

Rather than appearing as clear figures, they emerge as small marks, traces, or signs seen from above.

The painting plays with a contradiction of scale: the sea appears vast, yet also close and tactile, while the human gathering appears small but becomes structurally central to the image.

 

The three small paintings extend this logic into the surrounding space.

One was placed above the main painting, another beside it, partly hidden behind a pillar, and another higher up near the balcony area.

 

These works function as fragments or clues taken from the main painting, encouraging viewers to move through the space and discover them gradually.

 

Rather than presenting the work as a single fixed image, the installation offers a shifting experience of looking, where distance, attention, and discovery become part of the work itself.

 

Through this installation, Jung explores how an image can expand beyond its own surface. The viewer’s movement becomes part of the act of seeing: looking closely, stepping back, searching, and noticing what was not immediately visible.

 

Blue Aperture reflects Jung’s ongoing interest in the instability of perception, the contradiction between distance and intimacy, and the way images can both reveal and withhold what they contain.