T-yong Chung's Mutant Busters at Keats-Shelley House

T-yong Chung (born 1977 in Tae-gu) presents an installation at the Keats-Shelley House in Rome, marking the bicentennial of the most creative year for John Keats and Percy Bysshe Shelley, who were friends and neighbors in Rome around 1820. The work centers on Keats in dialogue with Shelley, but the artist has intervened on a group of busts by making sharp cuts on various parts of the faces, altering their features. This gives the images a new, contemporary identity, far from their original context. The practice aims to tell a new truth that hides or appears with its incompleteness, expressing a dialogue between past and present, classicism and modernity, East and West. Bird sculptures placed in various rooms reference Romantic poetry.