Haejin Yoon makes painting and drawing works that display new signs and icons which demonstrate undefined substances that are neither a human nor an animal nor a plant.
The transfigured forms are made intentionally ambiguous, and they do not belong to a certain category and disappear when confined to a word or logic. They are suggested as language liberated from concepts of time and conventional aspects.
The works intuitively express the spontaneous relationship between the subject and the medium. By means of altering and adjusting the tension of the vibrant colors, the ecstatic icons that reoccur in these works can at times appear amorphous.
In some works a pair of eyes or hint of limb playfully suggests the vulnerability and purity of a being.
In these creations the viewers can discover intimacy, sweetness, humor, ferocity, and many other different kinds of emotions.
Haejin Yoon (South Korea) is in residency at the Cité internationale des arts through the programme of the Gana Art Gallery.