ad balloon

Yang Yooyun has been capturing the wounds of the world by taking pictures of people met in daily life and gathering pictures from the press. These tend to be unfamiliar but lonely scenes – images of alienated people. Therefore, the paintings, where affection and compassion intertwine, are bound to collide with how the artist sees the world. In ad balloon (2017), the artist states our common experience with the utterance, “Some nights I followed the long shadows.” It is not clearly visible where the people on the bottom of the painting are headed, and the ad balloon is also distant, like the past or the future. This is intended as a metaphor for situations in which we believed we were progressing but also had an unshakable anxiety or fear of some kind.