Our lives are changing rapidly. The change is often even faster than the effort to adapt. Individuals who cannot keep up with this change feel anxious and obsessed with the feeling of isolation and anxiety, and continue to create negative views, emotions, and memories that come from it. The artist continues to ask questions. “How will you survive? How will you live?” Incessant questions keep running around in their head, looking at others and discovering individuals who are falling behind. The inner conflict that comes from this collides with the inner side of others and isolates itself. Surrounded by an anxious and unfavourable environment, the individual feels a sense of lack, a desire to belong, and an endless weakness from tense and unstable relationships. Relationships with others arise from relationships within inner sides. Depending on how mutually exclusive the inner side where individuals do not want to be invaded are, the relationships are expressed as the forms of cooperation, kindness, intimacy, confrontation, severance, tension, etc. To explore the relationship between confrontation and cooperation, anxiety and tension, the artist investigates how the inner spaces of various objects form various types of relationships. Various objects and environments that appear in the work forming various relationships are mediums that represent others and individuals. 'Will I swallow or will I be swallowed up? Will I be active or passive?' The artist tries to find a complex and confusing inner identity through relationships that come from these conflicts.
SCAD Presents "What You See Is What You Want To See," the thesis exhibition of Jaeyoun Shin (M.F.A., Painting). Shin incorporates watercolours, acrylic, Asian paper collage and other media to portray the fragility, sensitivity, and complexity of memories, emotions and thoughts expressed in her works. Collectively, the paintings are interconnected mindscapes that challenge the idea of personal identity and emotion. The works are divided into five pieces, each describing different boundaries of safe and unsafe environments and various senses of vulnerability. Each work intends to transform the spaces and objects from familiar to unfamiliar and lets the viewers see different perspectives.
This exhibition title <242: Between Days> is a title created by synthesizing the number 24, which means ‘time of day’, and the number 42, which indicates ‘relationship’ and ‘between people' which means the changing relationship between individuals within the time of day. We planned the exhibition intensively on what was created through various relationships, even though the external flow that is influenced by daily life and the individual fasting felt in those times became us.
This show will until December 25th, 2022 at Namsan HanoK Village, Seoul.
