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Find your way in unfamiliar soils with artist, Seoyoung Yun.
Artist Seoyoung Yun draws from a rich array of influences, from fleeting moments in daily life to exceptional finds in antique bookstores, flea markets, and local museums. Visual delights from catalogs and ecological dictionaries further tickle her imagination, provoking an intricate dialogue with what she refers to as the “underlying material” of nature. In Seoyoung’s paintings, natural motifs reside in a space between observation and creation, interpreted by her gaze and re-touched through layers of media.
Seoyoung cuts the tension between nature as it exists, and nature as it is represented. Once processed through her creative filter, natural elements shed their original forms and circulate in hybridity. Like actors on a stage, they fragment, distort, and assume new roles, tracing the contours of ambiguity and vehemently resisting singular definitions.
Seoyoung’s approach defies stylistic constraints, blending oriental aesthetics and contemporary experimentation in a way that honors the contradictions of the migratory experience. In her works, culinary motifs like garnishes are stripped of their conventional associations and transplanted into unfamiliar soils, traversing the boundaries between the natural and artificial, and evoking the extremes of alienation, aspiration, and discovery.
Positioned as an outsider, Seoyoung scrutinizes cultural essentialism and asserts her individuality within a kaleidoscope of muses. She pitches identity and belonging as processual concepts, encouraging the wanderers of this world to remix their experiences into her altered landscapes, and some day, find a way home.
