Standing before the paintings of Yoon Hyejin (b. 1992), we come face to face with eyes that have learned not to see clearly, but to endure. The forms on the canvas refuse to become distinct objects, revealing themselves only through blurred contours. The world the artist has painted is a landscape of memory discovered within the phenomenon of 'death' — brought to her by the prolonged illness of a beloved companion animal and the loss of her maternal grandfather. Landscapes that, being too close to the artist herself, could never resolve into clear views. Yoon builds her surfaces by layering planes and masses of color. Bleeding and seeping layers accumulate in place of sharp lines, and from this process colors emerge that seem to have simply arrived at what they are. In the new works presented in ≪Fading, Rising≫, colors of the in-between appear frequently — violet yet not quite violet, brown yet not quite brown, colors where beginning and end cannot be told apart. These are the colors of a neutrality between two contrasting hours, the color that belongs to the moment just before an outcome is faced; and at the same time, they are colors built up by the heart and time that refused to let go, all the way to that hour of dawn. In her previous solo exhibition, the artist likened the event of loss to a blazing sun — not the hopeful symbolism commonly ascribed to sunlight, but the sheer overwhelming force of the sun's existence itself: the helplessness of being undone before something that burns so intensely. The dynamism of a life struggling between living and dying had taken up residence in that sun. She rendered the lingering traces of time spent together — seen through blurred eyes, looking at the objects left behind by those who had gone — as landscapes where planes and masses of color bloom and spread. And those landscapes were her best effort as one who remains, an attempt to meet grief with wisdom. Through this blurred gaze and act of distancing, Yoon Hyejin rendered an immense and sudden loss as a vast landscape. And at last, having passed through the time of that blazing sun, she has arrived at the hour between night and morning — the crossing into new time. She stands at the midpoint between the tempest in which grief bears down like a wall before one's eyes and the life that continues beyond it, the hours of arriving life. The canvases of *Fading, Rising | 저물며 떠오르며*, suffused with that violet hour, are landscapes — blurred yet firm — drawn up by eyes that gaze upon the threshold between presence and absence.

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