Kyun Ngui is an artist living and working in London
Episode 494: Kyun Ngui joined me to speak about his recent book A Nervous Symmetry, a book that we worked on together through the Nearest Truth Year-Long photobook program.
I don’t mind mentioning that Kyun and I get along very well, and his book, with the aid of designer Lee Tesche, has been one of the more enriching projects that I have been involved in. The book is, at its heart, a book of photographs made on the streets of London, Kyun’s adopted home, but their haziness and hard-line approach to infrastructure and architecture turn the work into a lucid kind of dreamstate in which images are cut deeply by light and shadow, reminding one of Daido Moriyama’s Light and Shadow-era from the early 1980s.
When working on the book, the trio of Lee, Kyun, and me worked on the sequence over time, trying different competing strategies for an outcome that eventually became the book. We worked with Kyun to bring his images into a strange order, giving us the freedom to play with them and bring them to a state of controlled chaos. Please listen in and support Kyun directly if you can.
