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“Everything you're looking for is on the blank page. "

- My grandfather

Here is a sentence from my grandfather, a calligrapher, which deeply marked me. It can be interpreted in several ways, but as far as I'm concerned, it's an invitation to introspection, looking at the blank page is looking inside oneself.

As a Korean, I am obviously influenced by one of the main principles of Eastern thought: Yin and Yang, opposites which balance and coexist in all things. Some of my works are built from this principle of opposition, with a focus on areas of energy and others that remain empty, neglected ... This also explains the sparing use of color, the predominance black and white.

I also think I am indebted to traditional Korean painting which, unlike Western tradition, attaches little importance to composition. Where Western painting fills the entire frame and focuses on the details, the Korean ideal is to express a maximum of force in a few strokes, even if it means completely abandoning certain areas of the space. I think I work the same in my job, once the energy has been released in some places it doesn't have to be refilled. This also corresponds to a particular temporality, the creation being intimately linked to a brief, intense moment with no possible return.

On the other hand, whatever the medium I use (drawings, photo, installation, performance) I use the human body as a raw material and as a subject. Having lived all my childhood in a hospital where I had free time to wander, I got used to considering the body as a neutral and inanimate object, to treat it and use it as such in my works. The body can for example be staged in its entirety as a foreign object, or I use limbs, organs, to recompose abstract forms, hybrid objects.


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Sculpture, Nostalgie, Ji-Yun

Nostalgie

Ji-Yun

Sculpture - 19.7 x 11.8 x 15.7 inch

$1,694

Fine Art Drawings, Bon repas dans l'estomac, Ji-Yun

Bon repas dans l'estomac

Ji-Yun

Fine Art Drawings - 32.5 x 22.8 inch

$1,807

Fine Art Drawings, Sans titre20, Ji-Yun

Sans titre20

Ji-Yun

Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.1 inch

$847

Fine Art Drawings, Prickly Blooms, Ji-Yun

Prickly Blooms

Ji-Yun

Fine Art Drawings - 16.5 x 11.7 x 0.1 inch

$903

Fine Art Drawings, Crabe en panier, Ji-Yun

Crabe en panier

Ji-Yun

Fine Art Drawings - 16.5 x 11.7 x 0.1 inch

$903

Fine Art Drawings, Sebiok IV, Ji-Yun

Sebiok IV

Ji-Yun

Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 12.8 inch

$678

Sculpture, Métamorphose, Ji-Yun

Métamorphose

Ji-Yun

Sculpture - 19.7 x 39.4 x 16.5 inch

$3,388

Fine Art Drawings, Sans titre02, Ji-Yun

Sans titre02

Ji-Yun

Fine Art Drawings - 16.5 x 11.7 x 0.1 inch

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Fine Art Drawings, sans titre01, Ji-Yun

sans titre01

Ji-Yun

Fine Art Drawings - 16.5 x 11.7 x 0.1 inch

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Fine Art Drawings, Boule Percée, Ji-Yun

Boule Percée

Ji-Yun

Fine Art Drawings - 16.5 x 11.7 x 0.1 inch

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Who is the artist?

“Everything you're looking for is on the blank page. "

- My grandfather

Here is a sentence from my grandfather, a calligrapher, which deeply marked me. It can be interpreted in several ways, but as far as I'm concerned, it's an invitation to introspection, looking at the blank page is looking inside oneself.

As a Korean, I am obviously influenced by one of the main principles of Eastern thought: Yin and Yang, opposites which balance and coexist in all things. Some of my works are built from this principle of opposition, with a focus on areas of energy and others that remain empty, neglected ... This also explains the sparing use of color, the predominance black and white.

I also think I am indebted to traditional Korean painting which, unlike Western tradition, attaches little importance to composition. Where Western painting fills the entire frame and focuses on the details, the Korean ideal is to express a maximum of force in a few strokes, even if it means completely abandoning certain areas of the space. I think I work the same in my job, once the energy has been released in some places it doesn't have to be refilled. This also corresponds to a particular temporality, the creation being intimately linked to a brief, intense moment with no possible return.

On the other hand, whatever the medium I use (drawings, photo, installation, performance) I use the human body as a raw material and as a subject. Having lived all my childhood in a hospital where I had free time to wander, I got used to considering the body as a neutral and inanimate object, to treat it and use it as such in my works. The body can for example be staged in its entirety as a foreign object, or I use limbs, organs, to recompose abstract forms, hybrid objects.

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What is Ji-Yun’s artistic movement?

The artistic movements of the artists are: Op' Art