As It Is Becoming (Seoul)
2008, multi-channel video installation
In these lateral explorations, displacement is catalyzed as an artistic strategy causing these artworks to operate differently than a typical memorial: while a monument links an artwork directly and instrumentally to a historical event, in Yoon’s experiments, these links are indirect, requiring an artwork to pass through multiple and open-ended associations first. These associations are both historically concrete and abstract. Many of the sites in Seoul chosen by the artist have historical or personal significance. Thus the artist considers her works as a form of ephemeral and embodied commemoration of what bodies have endured, and often continue to endure, historically and at this present moment.
As It Is Becoming (Seoul), 2008, (installation view, Musée d’art contemporain des Laurentides), multi-channel video installation, dimensions variable, varied durations: 2:12 to 5:57, photo credit: Lucien Lisabelle