2021 Exhibition in Gallery Date, Busan, Korea ©CR Collective
CR
Collective presents a solo exhibition 《Still Lingering》 on view through February 28.
Yoon
Sang Yuel’s practice has focused on the processes and forms through which the
pictorial plane is revealed, using a formal language of repetition and order,
line and structure, built upon the accumulation of time. In his work,
repetition is not a performative process aimed at overcoming or achievement;
rather, it functions as a condition that enables continuation, and as a
deliberate mode of deferral that exposes a state in which forms that should
have come to an end nonetheless persist.
2009 Exhibition in Gallery Kawnhoon, Seoul, Korea ©CR Collective
For the
artist, this performative language and corporeality are not targets to be
eliminated or sublimated. Instead, they constitute the conditions under which
form continues to operate even after performance and completion have been
deferred—structures and residues that have not disappeared, and ultimately the
lingering traces of emotion that remain somewhere in between.
The
exhibition 《Still Lingering》
marks a point at which this attitude becomes explicit. The title’s reference to
“그 어딘가 (somewhere)” does not indicate a clear location
or point of arrival. It occupies an indeterminate middle ground—between subject
and de-subjectification, perfection and failure, order and chaos, institution
and emotion—signaling a state that is still in progress.
2022 Exhibition in The Page gallery, Seoul, Korea ©CR Collective
Fear
still remains, and systems continue to operate, yet the work does not come to a
halt. Rather, the exhibition proposes non-arrival itself as an ethic. In this
sense, Yoon Sang Yuel’s practice calls attention to the fact that contemporary
painting, at this juncture, continues to be a matter of sensibility and
attitude.
