University Campus Suffolk, Ipswich

Looking back

I wanted to go back to when i visited the London Art Fair. I feel it neccessary to actually look at some of the artists works that took my attention at the show.

Yu Jin-Young

Hidden inner worlds come to light

We keep on living as we continuously meet many people and be apart, remember and be forgotten. In this kind of life, we disguise ourselves and live a hypocritical life to distinguish one’s existence and to be recognized from the other. An instinct to find a free and true self, escaping from this yoke can never be concealed. However, the people have to make exaggerated gestures and stiff expressionless faces, and they live with contrary faces as they adapt themselves to this fast modern society. For each moments of being confused and controlled as we live with these numbers of people, we feel an impulse to identify a true face of oneself. ‘What is the true face of me?’

Yu Jinyoung portrays truth and illusions of a family with a house, the hideaway of these people, as a background. The artist’s previous work expresses a portrait of humans trapped in a society, and she has moved the meeting of her work into a fence called as home. Through everyday lives of family in very limited space called home, the inner world of family is closely examined.

The family wants to turn away their eyes from all discords and indifferences that are happening in a form of home, which should be intimate the most. They refuse an exposure to the outside by hiding themselves because they don’t want to show their pretentious look as a friendly family. How the alienated family disguises themselves as friendly ones is portrayed through an uncomfortable meeting with guests who attend to family events like big holidays. The children, who came to terms with reputations and bluffs of adults from guest’s visitation, automatically adapt themselves to hold down their emotions. The emotion spreads so far as to a dog.

The artist used a splendid flower on wall, clothes and even shadow in order to hide sad emotions of the family. The flowers in this work may look as a beautiful decoration for welcoming guests. But an intention of the artist is that the flower is more of a concealing tool than decoration. The pattern scatters one’s eye from family’s gloomy face to the splendid flowers and it produces a bright atmosphere. With this, it seems as the work has changed to a splendid image from the clear and simple works in past, but the artist’s intention of what to express with that face is unchanged.

Yu Jin-Young, Union Gallery. Online http://www.union-gallery.com/content.php?page_id=3024 Accessed 26th April 2014.

I had to copy in this whole text about the artist as i feel i can relate my work to the same kinda theory. My work only shows and represents a small part of my beagles, only giving a hint of life, emotion and personality.

Picture i found online. I quite like the faceless nature of the image.

Reflection on last few posts.

After looking back at what i have done in the last couples weeks and reading through my posts again, i have noticed something that i had not before. My step sister Lorna’s discussions about my work have suddenly interested me. In particular when she said, ”….able to show what an incredible yet horrific difference there is between the lives of these two animals. The loved pet and the lonely, scared test lad animal.”

I wanted to highlight when she said ”the lives of these two animals”. It has provoked my mind because Lorna calls me an animal from watching my video, NOT a human. That speaks volumes to me. I didnt even think of that being an outcome but now i see it makes sense. I put myself into a situation of vulnerability and entrapment with the context of an animal testing lab. This has therefore changed who i am. My identity as a human has been lost through my video, I am no longer seen as human, i have become name less animal.

Fascinating!

I did an extra video with Lorna of Lorna while she was tidying up the wool. I really like the distruction of the wool when pulled from the walls. Concurrently i like how the way Lorna does the actions, changes the atmosphere in the room. It was almost like a cleansing of the room to remove the feelings we had felt throughtout the filming process.

Video of Lorna while tidying the room up.

I am just going to load some images of George taken after the filming had finished today. I like how he is totally relaxed in the environment doing his own thing. His own thing which involves the usual chewing of a bone and getting himself tangled inside things. I also like how George is completely relaxed and unaware to the feelings i have for the space and its contents. I feel uncomfortable while he is totally at home.