Yeonju Sung

-Bread Dress, mashed bread on a mesh cover 2009-2010

-Tomato Dress, hundreds of tomatoes carved and mashed together on mesh and pins 2009-2010

Yeoju Sung

     Born and raised in Seoul in 1986 and still lives there, working today. She chose the food medium to work with because it was strange and desirable, but chose to work it in as clothing because to her anything can be worn, even food.  Her work cannot exist for longer than a week, so the only biographical info on her piece of art are photographs, so the moment of her art is temporary.  She feels her art is empty and useless since it is food just borrowing the look and shape of clothing, not to help in anyway. She takes huge amounts of time well kept together to make her clothing, but once it is done, a photo is taken and it is thrown away. The tomato dress is that of a prom dress and the same with the bread dress.  She used hundreds of tomatoes and pins to hold them in place. The bread dress is bread rolled up, squished. And mashed together to form that of a dress with ruffles.she believes the photograph is what helps her experience another reality, another world, then the actual reality.

     Yeonju relates to our food art because she created clothing out of food, and the food chosen is quite edible. she uses a variety of foods like tomatoes, bread, cabbage, banana's, lettuce, gum, meat, and she was even the one to create the lady gaga meat dress when she was on television. Yeonju's unique style and thought process are rather unusual, but she enjoys her work and strives to succeed in creating beautiful artwork and clothing using nothing but food!