Solin Yoon is a young Korean artist who came to ´ace for a Production Residency thanks to the agreement that Fundación´ace holds with ARKO—Arts Council Korea. Solin’s artistic practices embodies a wide range of media, mainly in photography, video and installation. She explores the potential of imagination amplified by the journey of contemporary visual field with Feminist subjectivity model.

During her time in our studio, Solin created a site-specific installation for the Políglota Room, where she played with pictures and footage of the horizon that she took in her trip to Ushuaia. At the same time, Solin collaborated with Iván Rivelli (Argentina) to present an audiovisual piece in the same space of our studio, where the two artists developed a video about Solin’s walks around Buenos Aires accompanied by Iván’s recordings of the sounds of this city.

ARTIST STATEMENT

Now, in an era when one could so readily retreat into irony or lethargy, I consider that the value of art lies in the possibility to re-imagine one’s agency. As the epistemological methodology for this, I rely on the feminist agency model. A feminist explores her own site of agency by asking through what channel she becomes the Other, whether or not woman as the Other can ever be satisfied, and how she can penetrate the surface of desire and swim in and out of it freely. She must come to confront her answer to these questions, as it changes subtly over time. My artwork begins by observing how an individual finds satisfaction amongst the aspects of conflicts created by a condition of being a woman. I believe artistic experience could be the medium of transformation so that we do not resign ourselves to our current social dynamics or become blunted to their force.

When technology in the form of the camera illuminates the “experience of being a woman” with a nuance exerted on the viewer like a physical phenomenon, we can find the unseen sticking out unexpectedly, as if the interference phenomenon that appears on the camera as it reflects the Television tube. Technology, as it shapes for us the meaning of ‘contemporaneity’ is welcomed into our lives. The system under whose control the experience of women is woven may appear not to distinguish between the gender of its subjects. It might seem to us that the effects which technology or which patriarchy produces on us are self-contained, though in truth they are mutually determining, like waves which meet and interfere to form a greater wave which animates our inner lives obscurely, although powerfully. My work shows these two waves—the technology that made the immaculate high-tech camera lens and the system that renders the woman’s experience of being a subject—overlapping, and amplifies their interference. Through my art, I refer to the arbitrariness of both light and dark areas that cross the scene, and thenceforth I attempt to imagine a new phase, at the end of the space created by the interference.