Acrylic on canvas and wooden structure
72x84.5x15cm
Youngjoo Kim’s creation that throws fundamental questions about art beyond the question of expression is difficult but simple. This is because the question about reproducibility that has passed down through the history of Western art is linked to today when the artist looks at the world. It goes beyond the relationship between the subject and the object and eventually focuses on the essence of “creation”, thereby moving to the agency of how to realize the equation of “visualization of art = seeing.” The artist concentrates on a simple but fundamental question about the need to pursue an open paradigm by presenting fundamental questions surrounding symbols.
In Two Stances (2020-2021), the artist left brush strokes to present the “act of painting,” and also her selection of colors to show universal symbolism. In the paintings liberated through standardization, the conditions of painting are fixed while the squares acquire freedom in the process of wide variations.
78x92x5cm
Charcoal and pencil on paper