place, but above all because I realized that to create the work I should have activated all my senses in a report with the nature and the specifics of Ashram. Bungalow Mantra was born in this way.
Was to report to the curator of the project different from the normal relationship at the basis of "canonical" art events?
With Fulvio Chimento we were in tune, he respected my artistic sensibility and above all the evolution of work. He let me develop my ideas but he lend me daily to the confrontation insisting on the adherence of the work to the specific features of the project. I then gave birth to a sound installation able to integrate the work with the spiritual dimension of the place. The work will be used by the inhabitants of Ashram as a space for practicing meditation and singing.
In your works there is always a "trace" of spirituality, which is tendentially less dominant in the works of European artists or Anglo-American traditions. What are the main characteristics of Oriental art approach in your works?
In my work, I always seek balance between the visual and mental spheres, but also between figurative and abstract components, between the West and the East. If in the faces of my sculptures I usually intervene with an industrial sander, I do it because I want to get an empty space on a face that follows the roots of the Greek-Roman statuary. Or sometimes I recover pieces of iron that I find abandoned in the countryside and level them in a piece with the glass paper, so that they become bright as a mirror.
How did Western art influence your work, since you have been living in Italy for several years?
With reference to the Italian art of the previous century, I am influenced by Arte Povera, because the artists linked to this movement have succeeded in creating highly poetic works with great impact, using lightweight and very simple materials. This does not mean that I consider Western culture superior or better than Oriental culture, or vice versa. I like to keep balance between these two components, I feel them like different traditions, that can join themselves with respect. Bungalow Mantra, for example, may seem like a primitive refuge, but it infuses warmth, a "full" spirituality that travels in the unknown world in order to enhance the time (and sense) of listening.
T-yong Chung, Bungalow Mantra, sound installation (detail), Ashram Joytinat (AN), 2017