JEJn

b.1990, Korea

(KR)

JEJn(Jaejin) moves freely between past and present, art and commodity, production and consumption, drawing on sources that range from medieval woodcuts to games, brands, and contemporary art. Rather than creating images from scratch, he appropriates familiar imagery from the visual culture that surrounds us. Focusing on viewers as active producers of meaning,
JEJn positions his works as platforms where selected images mix, collide, and interact, creating a space for multiple associations and interpretations.

In Studio Fabrica, JEJn combines Jost Amman’s (1539–1591) woodcuts documenting trades and working environments in sixteenth-century Europe with imagery associated with art, fashion, capital, and consumer culture. These unexpected combinations offer immediate visual pleasure while bringing disparate systems of value into contact.

In one work, Pablo Picasso is transformed into a medieval potter, accompanied by a dove and his ceramics. Elsewhere, Andy Warhol appears as a tanner working with leather, silkscreening an image of Marilyn Monroe onto its surface. By returning iconic figures of art history to sites of manual production through the bodies of medieval craftspeople, JEJn places the act of making at the centre of the work. In doing so, he humorously unsettles established distinctions between artist and artisan, artwork and commodity.

The series also extends into the world of Pokémon. Charizard X and Charizard Y are summoned into a medieval arena, facing one another as Ash Ketchum appears among the surrounding crowd. Bird Pokémon, including Pidgeot, become decorative motifs, while references to Jean-Michel Othoniel’s beaded forms and Jeff Koons’s flowers are woven into the same pictorial world.

By allowing game characters, medieval European imagery, and contemporary artworks to coexist without a fixed hierarchy, Studio Fabrica playfully asks how images today are remembered, circulated, consumed, and assigned value. Across these unlikely encounters, images from radically different times and cultural contexts are detached from their original contexts and become material for new associations, interpretations, and forms of visual pleasure.

JEJn
Studio Fabrica 36 (Charizard), 2026
Acrylic on canvas
145.5 x 97 cm
KRW 12,000,000

JEJn
Studio Fabrica 122 (Andy Warhol), 2026
Acrylic on canvas
130.3 x 97 cm
KRW 9,500,000

JEJn
Studio Fabrica 123 (Pablo Picasso), 2026
Acrylic on canvas
130.3 x 97 cm
KRW 9,500,000

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