Cupboard
커보드
ThisWeekendRoom, Seoul
November 12 - 27, 2021
The third solo exhibition by Jiyoung Yoo, Cupboard, is an attempt to compare and look at the composition system observed in a residence, our home, which consists of our everyday lives with the other one that comprises paintings and their surroundings. Yoo overlaps two functions of "using" and "looking" with a shape and a logic that was brought from cabinets used at home for storing, organizing, and arranging. By doing so, the serial composition of paintings, “image-support-exhibition space”, becomes corresponding to the "object-shelf-residential space" triad. Yoo deems that just like we take out items that we need from shelves and use them at home, the audience (users) take out items (images) from shelves (paintings) and use them. In Cupboard, Yoo presents works that further visualize this logic. The artist overlaid flat supports (canvas or wood) with paints. Along with that, she attached shelves and handles on supports, made cabinets, and put objects that cast from real things around the work. In addition, her works in context imply some specific places such as a kitchen, and a bathroom in a residential place and convey day-and-night lifestyle patterns at home in a metaphorical way.
_Sangyeop Rhii (indipendent curator)