Yooyun Yang's exhibition 'Uncommon Sight' showcases new paintings that blend the real and imagined through 'visual errors' perceived in daily life. Working with layers of acrylic on Jangji paper, Yang creates cinematic imagery that captures fleeting moments in contemporary existence. Inspired by her experience with abandoned stage lights, Yang's work transforms mundane objects into anthropomorphic forms, evoking feelings of estrangement and curiosity in viewers. The exhibition highlights the artist's fascination with how familiarity and novelty intersect in unexpected ways.
Yang's technique of building up multiple thin layers of acrylic paint on absorbent Jangji paper, combined with her soft muted palette, coalesce to form a hazy cinematic effect reminiscent of film noir.
It is this glitch, this moment before our brain has distinguished between the real and the invented, that sparked the artist's imagination.
Innocuous objects become anthropomorphic beings with sinister intentions; a metal pole morphs into a neck gripped by fabric, the cord of a window blind resembles a noose.
I am drawn to moments where familiarity and novelty collide, making us feel estranged from mundane subject matters.
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