JiYoung Yoon
Seoul, Korea2023, Multimedia Installation
This work explores the organic relationship between nature and human society, and metaphorically expresses the connection between the vitality, drive, and interaction of plants and human power and desire. The plants that fill the wooden container and the cut and reassembled pieces of tree roots and branches represent the obstacles, friction, compromise, and selection that the plants have encountered in the process of growing over a long period of time. The plants collide with the frame and bend, and face their own boundaries or compete for survival with other plants.
This appearance is connected to the power, energy, and reciprocity required in human life, and is visually realized with a classic print and a cyanotype-style photo installation made through natural exposure using actual forest branches, roots, leaves, and soil as materials. Meanwhile, the work uses various sizes and shapes of exciters and bass shakers to capture the negotiation and conflict process that takes place in the work with colorful sounds, providing a rich acoustic experience. <Stretch, Bend, Break, Connect> deeply explores the possibilities of acoustic elements that harmoniously blend with visual expressions, and attempts an organic connection between hearing and sight and an expanded sensory experience. Furthermore, it illuminates the complex relationships between various elements such as nature and society, natural objects and artificial objects from various angles, and seeks to provide the audience with a multi-layered space of thought and senses about vitality.