Nana Yoon Solo Exhibition

In the modern society, time is the most important thing and time management is becoming increasingly demanding and sensitive. Nevertheless, the rhythm of time remains unchanged even when we look at a space in a stopped state. While the time of reality flows uniformly, the internal time varies depending on the situation and the individual. There are two contrasting ways of looking at the time. Through nature, the time is constant, continuous, and objective. However, human beings have only a “spirit” to perceive it, which is subjective. In other words, what I am talking about is “time period(experienced)” rather than “time”. This subjective aspect is first perceived by sight. The gaze on the world is making time. The more gaze does not move, the more meditation it takes, the longer and slower it seems. Also it gave an emphasis on personal perception of time and its relationship in the unconscious. In order to reproduce the space that can feel the real time, I used a camera, which is a tool that can store the movements and changes of light most clearly and accurately. Also it tried to draw the landscape as it is.

Nuances du ciel
Duration 18mn43, 12mn05, 27mn54, 23mn38
Video installation (projection) / dimension variable

Each line is a video of the dawn and sunset of many days. When I look at the sky, my vision is neither framed nor scoped, so I reconstruct the image. Montage work is done through different lines which is a symbol of time mixed. The video is abstract, like a monochrome picture. But the picture is no longer abstract, it is time itself. The painting is a concrete and practical image of the sky with very fine movements. It is the actual thing(time) perceived in personal experience. It is a scene that resembles the color field(champ de couleur) that eliminates the effect of perspective. By shooting very slow movements, images create hallucinations of photos, but each scene is moving. Thus, we can pay attention to the actual speed of time. Time is monotonous and we are used to it, but it has a subtle difference and is constantly changing.

Goutte d’horloge
2009
‘Drop of clock’
Video installation (projection) / dimension variable

(Water droplets were placed in front of the watch. And when the drops of water drop, you can see the clock in it. And I edited the image to drop the droplets every second)

Time is neither visible nor audible. Each person measures it in their own way, at their own pace. From a scientific point of view, we use mathematically accurate measurements of time. But we live in a real world, time can not be perceived, only the symbols recognize it. Everything is like a droplet, time is measured, flowing, and irreversible. My work constitutes a change in the viewing of time in order to separate the context of the present moment(past, present, and future). It is an endless infinite present. But do you know we can hold onto the moment? Holding the moment is calm, gentle, out of time, or beyond the modern world. Or the units of measurement are always more clear and the rhythm of our lives. Escaping from speeds is always to calculate the passing time and to forget to obey.

After graduated from an art high school in Korea in 2003, Yoon moved to France to enter the art college. She completed Bachelor’s degree of Arts and maser’s degree in Art in 2011. Yoon also received a diploma D.N.S.E.P ‘Diploma National Supereur Expression Plastique’ in 2011. After having several group exhibitions in France, She came back to Korea and had her first solo exhibition in Busan. Recently she has been working with a variety of young artists in Seoul and Busan.

Nana Yoon “Goutte d’horloge” (2009)