Artist Yeon Yeoin’s latest solo exhibition with a series of works by DiAsporary. Born in Seoul, Yeon majored in psychology and creative visual arts at Sogang University. Her work is an exploration of emotion through surreal images. Using techniques ranging from pen and ink to digital painting, Yeon creates a unique world, inspired by her personal experiences and filled with original characters that reflect difficult-to-define emotional states.
In “The House My Mother Built,” Yeon uses rooms and family spaces as themes to explore the formation of childhood. Here, the “house” is not only a physical residence, but also an inner building, a psychological shelter full of memory. When Yeon was young, her room was a refuge for the outside world, a ruin of imagination and identity formation, with the role of private tea parties and picture books becoming part of her understanding of the world. The current behavior of painting is a similar purposeful exercise, transforming fragments of emotions and imagination into fragments of visual language, allowing oneself and others to understand and participate. Audiences are invited to consider shaping their homes and spaces that shape these homes, what memories and emotions are there, and whether they are ready to start building new ones::
“The space I live in, the words I hear, the picture books I see and the people I can’t help but feel like – all of this built my house.
Yeon Yeoin’s “House Built by My Mother” is on display at DiAsporary until September 27.
