Jiseon Yoon has been selected as one of artists participated in 2018-2019 Textile Art of Today, the Triennial  which presents the contemporary world textile art.

The exhibition takes place at Danubiana Museum in Bratislava, Slovak Republic through November 11th, 2018. After that the exhibition will move to Czech, Hungary and Poland till the end of 2019. 

Yossi Milo Gallery presented Rag Face, an exhibition of sewn photographs by Korean artist Yoon Ji Seon. The exhibition opened Friday, October 23 and will be on view through Saturday, December 5, 2015. This is the artist’s first solo exhibition in the United States.Featured in Yoon’s inaugural exhibition at the Gallery will be pieces from her ongoing series, Rag Face, made by intricately stitching photographs with a sewing machine. The artist begins each work by photographing herself making an exaggerated facial expression. She then sews over the resulting print in multiple layers of colorful thread, building texture and tonal effects like a painter. Leaving only the eyes of the portrait peeking through the stitches, Yoon obscures and distorts her features, as would a traditional Korean or African mask, and allows bundles of thread to hang from the surface of the piece which are suggestive of hair, viscera or sound. These elements transform the works into three-dimensional objects that blur distinctions between photography, sculpture, painting and craftwork, intertwining, in Yoon’s words, the “digital mode taken by photography” and the “analogue emotion felt from sewing”.

Photography is as leveling as a baseball bat in a room full of fine china. A globalized technol­ogy almost from birth, wherever it appeared it rearranged the cultural furniture, flattening native traditions of representation and follow­ing the same trajectory of development : from early experiments to pictorialist atmosphere to sharp-edged modernism and, as transmission expanded, to a transactional currency driven by social media. Yet local influences inter­rupt the diffusion, resist the tide of sameness with distinctive practices linked to indigenous traditions.   

Q1. When you were a child, did you want to become an artist and did your parents encourage your creativity?
A1. I have been fond of art, play and literature since I was a child, however, I didn’ t have any specific plan to become an artist.

신수진(아래 신) 이 작품을 보고 ‘이게 사진인가?’라는 질문을 많이 받으실 것 같습니다.
윤지선(아래 윤) 전공은 회화였지만 처음 작업을 시작했을 때부터 사진을 적극적으로 활용해 왔습니다.
비전공자 입장에서 사진을 사용하는 것이 처음에는 조심스럽고 부담스럽기도 했지만, 미국의 초현실주의 사진가이자 화가인 만 레이 Man Ray 의 ‘나는 그릴 수 없는 것을 사진으로 찍고, 찍을 수 없는 것을 그린다’라는 말이 저에게 용기를 주었습니다.