Jayoon’s work is about ︎︎︎ What does it mean to be human?
︎︎︎ How does one build the world for themselves? ︎︎︎What value do we possess or do not possess to be human? ︎︎︎ Seeking a tangible form or an experience to convey such questions
Using ︎︎︎ drawing as a tool to actualise the investigation (of the above questions)
︎︎︎ Automatic drawing, moving image & installation
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Jayoon’s practice explores the gap between inner human experience and the act of
translating it into tangible form.
She gravitates toward moments that resist language: experiences that are either too raw, too isolated, or reduced to clichéd expressions.
Through automatic processes, she investigates the vast internal landscape buried beneath our physical forms, questioning how much our bodies truly reveal about who we are. Using herself as both subject and testing ground, she engages bodily metaphors to create visual embodiments of what cannot be spoken.
This embodiment takes a paradoxical form: Jayoon uses fragments of the human body to materialise intangible internal experiences.
Her approach deliberately strips away constructed identifiers such as time, gender, and culture, depicting androgynous figures to uncover the essential force that inhabits the physical body. This inquiry echoes the Buddhist hwadu (話頭): "What moves this corpse?" —a question that drives her investigation into the ineffable nature of being human.
Text extends this philosophical inquiry, serving as both seed and tool in her creative process. She weaves together personal reflections, poetry, lyrics, philosophical writings, and religious texts as foundational elements for her work. Through this interdisciplinary methodology, Jayoon attempts to embrace and speculate on shared human experiences that transcend all differences.