Quizás — Yoon-Hee
12.07.–13.08.2014
Quizás — Yoon-Hee
The Galeria d'Art Horizon presents her work for the first time in Spain. The exhibition consists of a series of sculptures in bronze as well as three large works on paper with black pigment on Vélin d’Arches paper. The exhibition, entitled "Quizas", will be inaugurated on Saturday, the 12th of July 2014, with the presence of the artist. The exhibition will be open to public until the 13th of August. Gallery hours are Tuesday to Sunday 18:00-21:30. Mondays closed.
Yoon-Hee was born in South Korea. She moved to France in the 80s. From that time she began exhibiting in France and Korea. Her works can be found in public institutions in both countries (Oiron Castle, Busan Metropolitan Museum).
You have been using metals for many years. Why is that?
Metals are materials that can be found everywhere in the universe. My first metal pieces are solid blocks I took from intermediate steps in the industrial chain. These are things that are normally never seen as they are included in a transformation cycle. By isolating them, I turned them into a space of visibility. Changes affecting the industrial world since the 2000s make it now impossible for me to work this way. Now, I take the metal in its liquid state, I pour it, I throw it and I put it into motion before it freezes. This allows me to set the impression of a movement instantly.
Your practice is divided between drawing and sculpture. What connects these two practices?
Sculpture and drawing are complementary; they originate from the same spirit. When I made blocks, drawings were dense. Today, the two practices are even closer: In both of them I work with the liquid in a very short act. Turning a material from liquid to solid involves changing it from one state to another. This transition makes it possible to deploy space. You can not edit or correct. It is final: the induced act and form follows from itself. I took it as a rule to accept what happens.
Your works seem indestructible or very fragile. One has the impression that you are looking for a limit.
This may reflect my way of being. We can not cheat. What seems indestructible actually changes continuously and what is fragile is on the verge of being nothing but imposes a tension in this way. This is a limitation of art that has always interested me: to make something appear by implementing a few simple procedures. I never make an object; I set the conditions to produce a state. What happens may at any time change. Fragility shows the nature of things. Through my work, I try to show a temporary state that is a balanced point in the transformation process that permanently affects the entire universe.
Interviewed during a working session at the Ilhat foundry in Flourens (France), June 3, 2014.
Inauguración: Sábado 12 de Julio a las 19:30h.
Horario: De martes a domingo 18.00-21:30
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