KICHE

March

April

8:00 PM

8:00 AM

Long-Distance Relationship_Wish You Were Here

Day-Hour-Minute_20 Hours 40 Minutes

B.F.A Painting, Hong-Ik University, Korea

M.F.A Painting, Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, UK

Jiyoung Yoo studies artificial orders and systems that are found in everyday life, and the history of objects that belong in such system. As a subject of painting, the artist observes and collages various forms of objects such as eggs, water cups, manuscripts, calendars, and clocks that are often categorized as one unit or assembled as a bundle. This unique practice highlights the idea of relations in paintings. Visually intersecting and yet limiting the conditions of systems that each object has, the variations that the artist depicts present a new perspective in her own language.

Galleries Art Fair

KICHE holds Jiyoung Yoo's fifth solo exhibition and her first solo exhibition with KICHE, Traverse In Between, from June 22nd to July 22nd. In this exhibition, the artist introduces about 20 new works that dismantle, distort, and reimagine the “frame of time,” which forms the universal basis of human existence. Through these oeuvres, the artist visualizes the gaps that have not been incorporated into the established system and crosses them to sense them anew.
Day-Hour-Minute (2023) is a series that takes inspiration from the fact that the unit of time following the arithmetic law is the segmentation of the angle of a circle. Over the six months of preparation for the exhibition, the artist recorded and transcribed the daily movements onto a circular timeline. Long-Distance Relationship (2023) series symbolically warps and contrasts the different days to uncover the gaps (in other words, non-linearity) in a linear day that we become aware of only when interacting with people in other time zones. Time Zone Panel (2023), on the other hand, reveals the arbitrary contradiction of the time system that artificially sets boundaries on the time zones. The wood and jesmonite panels mixed with steel powder are made in the form of the time zone of the Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) map; the highs and lows in relation to UTC+0 are reflected on its surface density.

The exhibition (space) is based on a non-linear narrative that is teeming with the web of fragmented images. It sometimes points towards eternity where time has faded, and sometimes becomes the past that allows us to face the present anew. And even it drives into a future imagined through newly intertangled relationship of the present and the past. Even the images that are listed and arranged are freely mixed in the consciousness of the audience irrespective of their order and invite a free imaginary space-time unconstrained from the conditions of reality. The time Jiyoung Yoo builds up on the nature of these exhibitions is not a system that regulates our life by scientifically measuring it, but as a “form of existence” that traverses and continues between standardized ways of being.
_KIM Sung woo, Associative Curator