Unveiling Concealed Violence and Facing Fundamental Anxiety: Artist Yip Holds Solo Exhibition

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Artist Yip, who won the prestigious Dorothea Tanning Award from the U.S. Foundation for Contemporary Arts last year, is holding a solo exhibition. The artist unpacks the taboos and tragedies that our society has turned a blind eye to using a unique sculptural language.

Reporter Lee Ju-sang has the details.

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[-3 and a 1/2 World War / Through September 19 / Art Space 3]

Life-sized panels are filled with various images symbolizing women and food.

The titles of individual works include food names such as cooked rice, noodles, xiao long bao, and desserts, while the title of the entire series is "Treating Women."

It is a metaphor for the reality of violence against women and secondary victimization through foods that are consumed and forgotten on the dining table.

[Yip / Artist : I drew paintings about the food I ate in that country and paintings that treat women like that food, a series of paintings.]

The artist embodies herself as a woman through pink sculptures.

It is an identity representing the sum of numerous elements.

However, the surroundings are enclosed by massive banners.

The banners are densely packed with undecipherable symbols.

They denounce the social reality that conceals violence and shifts responsibility.

[Yip / Artist : I talked about how the media and words from others often mask the violence victims have experienced, and this is a work about those words that cover it up.]

The artist does not shy away from confronting the death of her parents, which is considered a sort of taboo.

It is a direct confrontation with the fundamental anxiety about an inevitable future farewell, accepting the fear of loss as an inescapable reality right before one's eyes.

[Yip / Artist : It is a story like a World War III, something we haven't experienced yet but will experience, or perhaps something we were already experiencing or have experienced.]

From violence against women and social concealment to the fundamental sense of loss inherent in life, artist Yip brings to light the taboos and tragedies that our society has ignored through her signature sculptural language.

(Video Editing: Kim Ho-jin, VJ: Oh Se-gwan)
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