From April 17 to May 18, 2024, Dohing Art will hold Jaeyeon Yoo’s
solo exhibition 《Sketch》.
The exhibition features the artist’s imagination and thinking
process that is further expanded in the place of night, focusing on the
artist’s ‘Night Walker’ series, which captures people walking alone in a blue
night on canvases .
Reflecting on the natural materials that Jaeyeon Yoo was
interested in, the works have mainly featured figures such as insects,
butterflies, and fish that have often appeared in the same form for a long time
in human history. Repeated in an unwavering form in the long history of
mankind, they evoke a variety of emotions, such as fear, fleetingness, and
wonder, in certain cultures and historical places. These figures gracefully
span a dim image filled with personal illusions, expanding the time and space.
It also presents a series of wooden works called ‘Piece-Painting’
by the artist. The wood is divided into pieces and the artist’s drawings are
made three-dimensional, containing episodes that have occurred in daily life,
and the accumulated drawings are recombined in multiple layers.
These works are sculptural paintings containing stories of nights placed in
twelve months of a year, and drawings drawn on different days were gathered to
create twelve landscapes.
In this solo exhibition, the artist divides the process of
imagination and thinking that takes place around the place of night into
several spaces and leads a pictorial journey that reveals the illusion along
the path that passes through them. In the artist’s work, the emergent illusions
that fill the night are presented through the attributes of spontaneous,
incidental, and sometimes premeditated paintings. In addition, the colorful
memories that are painted, erased, and overlapped with the artist’s unique
technique are overlaid with the emotions of the night that the artist talks
about, and settled in their own positions.
Let’s follow the artist’s journey into the world of deep dreams by
exploring the places of the night where you gain both isolation and freedom at
the same time. Just like the day when the artist walks at night, we hope that
this show will be a time for visitors to think across dreams and reality, from
past to future, and the boundaries between human and non-human.
