Seongmin Yoo Exhibition 8/7-9/2
"Bondage to Freedom"
Seongmin Yoo is a Korean-
born conceptual and
installation artist that now
lives in America.
Known for her inventive use of
space and materials, her body
of work involves collage,
painting, video, performance,
and installation.
Seongmin often utilizes
traditional Korean
techniques that her mother
taught her.
Seongmin says she owes
most of her success to the
decades of experience and
extensive knowledge gifted to
her by her mentors.
Seongmin's work deals with
both her personal struggles
and political struggles.
A contemporary of Wangechi
Mutu, Lin Tianmiao and Tania
Brugeera she is working in
the ethno-futurism aesthetic.
Her work features startling
hybrid figures and
otherworldly images that
evoke the idea of breaking
free from a life of servitude.
In her current body of work,
she is using video and
installation art to address
ideas like intruders, torture
and subjugation.
Problems that women face in
Korea like footbinding, misogyny,
and sexist gender roles manifest
in Seongmin's surrealistic figures
being shackled, attacked, and,
ultimately, liberated.
Provocative, powerful, and
profound, Seongmin Yoo is
considered one of the most
important conceptual
installation artists of our time.
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