Heeseop Yoon
Heeseop Yoon works by drawing out cluttered and tangled messes with black masking tape on huge landscapes. Her pieces cover entire walls in galleries and transverse along the floor. What interests me the most is the sheer volumes of the pieces and how almost nothing is coherent in the swaths of tape. There is an almost schizophrenic quality to these drawings. Her style is very unique as well as the subject matter in addition to the overall shapes of the pieces. In using an amalgam of different cluttered images it is reminiscent of fractals seen in mathematics, as one zooms in more it changes as the blurry objects become more visible and recognizable. She states that she draws lines over and over to "correct" what she sees, thus adding a more chaotic element into the mix. The pieces themselves convey a sense of claustrophobia but not in a necessarily negative way. One could argue that these are a metaphor for social media or large scale advertising, bearing a sensory overload and incoherence when viewed from afar.
Heeseop Yoons work captivated my interest immediately because of the scale of her work and the mass amount of information overload that is happening within the works themselves. The imagery is made up of everyday objects we have seen over the course of our lives but they have been smashed and stuffed together so much so that the objects seem to lose their value and integrity. The cluster of black lines which make up the forms give way to the rhythm of the art work which causes a kind of tempo or beat the viewer follows through out the chaos. Her use of positive and negative space allows the viewer to enter the crazy mess of stuff where you start to feel overwhelmed and then to exit into the carefully planned out larger white spaces. When viewing her work in the museum spaces it is important to think of the viewers relation to the imagery. The viewer is very small compare to the scale of her work which immediately instills a feeling of overwhelming discomfort. It could start to make one feel claustrophobic. Yoon says her work “deals with memory and perception within cluttered spaces.” She photographs basements, workshops, and storage places “where everything is jumbled and time becomes ambiguous without the presence of people.” -Yoon. Her description of her work is very intriguing because I believe that is exactly how hoarders think. People are not present, so much stuff has been acquired over a course of time and to even begin to fathom cleaning it is impossible, therefor time becomes ambiguous and the hoarder just goes about their business finding solace in the negative spaces they have created for themselves amidst all the clutter.
ReplyDeleteThis artists work i really interesting to look at! The amount of detail that is put into her work is mesmerizing as there are so many things for the viewer to look at. I really like how her drawings are spread over the walls almost as is they are traveling or flowing along in a sort of organic way. Its really interesting how her artwork can make a very flat surface look so cluttered without all the actual clutter. I feel like this would look even more amazing in person to get the real feel of how large these pieces are. The line work is messy and sketchy but the pieces are put together so well that it looks liked a finished piece rather than a sketch. I feel like people are used to seeing drawings like this maybe but the fact that she put her drawing on a wall makes it that more intriguing.
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