“I Like To Watch” Installation view at Ilmin Museum of Art ©Ilmin Museum of ArtFrom September 7 to November 12, the Ilmin Museum of Art will present I Like To Watch, a solo exhibition by Issy Wood (b. 1993).
Issy Wood is a multidisciplinary artist who works in painting, blogging, composing music, and directing music videos. Issy Wood’s paintings depict cropped scenes with low-chroma colors on a blurred screen as if a filter has been applied. The artists paints vintage objects, luxuries, and sexual metaphors, illustrating them with classical motifs from Hellenism, Gothic, and Baroque. The works are also characterized by the artist’s indifferent attitude toward objects and scenes.
The exhibition is held on the first, second, and third floors of the Ilmin Museum of Art. On the first floor, 25 small paintings and one ceramic tile work on the floor are displayed, while the second floor features paintings that are larger than those on the first floor. On the third floor, viewers can see the work < Study for good will > (2019), which uses clothes, as well as the artist book QUEEN BABY (2023), which was published during the exhibition. Also, viewers can watch several music videos directed by the artist.
The exhibition is part of a program to explore contemporary painting, following the previous exhibition Hysteria. The exhibition understands Issy Wood’s work as “examine the very act of painting”, which “muddies the conventional attempts to reduce painting to binaries of form and content, spatiality, and flatness.”
