[Atelier Y] Add to the 'freedom of imagination' in the work. - Writer Yang Jung-su

January 2025 Art Square – Invitational Exhibition by Yang Jung-soo Artist

January 1st (Wed) ~ January 31st (Fri)

Location: YTN New Square 1F lobby in Sangam-dong

The protagonist of the first YTN Art Square invitation exhibition, which opens the year in 2025, is writer Yang Jung-soo. The artist visited YTN Art Square with new works in three years following 2022.

a writer born in 1994 He is a young writer who has just entered his 30s, but the feeling of his work is very unique. When I look at the artist's work using acrylic and sculptures, I can feel the free-spiritedness that I don't know where to bounce.

When the artist appreciates his work, he also wants the audience to feel it as it seems rather than being entangled in something.

Writer Yang Jung-soo always asks if he was true to himself while producing his work. Why don't you enjoy the work of Yang Jung-soo and imagine freely through it? The exhibition runs until January 31.

▼ The following is a question-and-answer with writer Yang Jeong-su

▲ MIND WASH, 90.9 x 65.1 x 22.0cm, Barbie doll x Acrylic, 2024

Q. Please introduce the subject of the exhibition.

If you look at my works, they all have different themes. So I feel unnatural if I have to introduce the themes as one when I exhibit. In my exhibition, I hope you can look at each of the works according to their feelings.

▲ CROCODILE TEARS, 67.0 x 50.0cm, Barbie doll x Acrylic, 2024

Q. How do you usually come up with ideas for your work?

Rather than thinking about it, I myself am curious and sensitive. It may seem strange or absurd to others, but such questions and questions feel important to me. It's always a question mark in my head. If you want to know like that, you do it, and you just know intuitively as if you're getting some signal. You have to understand and clarify such a supersensory phenomenon on your own to try to escape from mental difficulties, but a person is bound to become very persistent. The things that I noticed in the process of such exploration since I was young made me feel infinitely depressed and funny and exciting. Of course, I don't think 'knowing' can be called 'real knowing'. Most of the things that cannot be known from wearing the human body make up the universe and the world and are just things that can be felt. I can feel such fundamental things, but I can't know, so it was chaos itself in my young heart. But at some point, I came to enjoy it with silence. Therefore, I have no choice but to be free and humble in the sense of 'I don't know'. Anyway, since it is my daily life, at some point, some combinations come to me as images as if they were being photographed in my head. I was able to understand this process a little clearly because I worked on it to explain some of the things that I can explain in words like this. At this point, I'm so glad and grateful that I've found a tool to effectively release my mental energy. So I have to thoroughly observe and study myself for myself, and in the end, my work is the only thing I can rely on and fully exist.

▲ DAYDREAMING, 80.3 x 80.3cm, Barbie doll x Acrylic, 2024

Q. The way the exhibition works are expressed feels very unique. In the case of "HOME SICK", electric outlets are just decorated on the side, and those are also part of the work. I'm curious about how to melt your imagination into a work.

It's not just a decoration, it's one of the metaphors of imagery that I'm trying to express. The images and expressions that come to mind are fun and make me feel complete and enjoyable even when I embody them. Then it's fun for me to naturally imagine what other people would be like. If you're curious or want to know what I want to express, you can try independent thinking or imagining, and I think that's how I communicate and what I can share.

▲ HOME SICK, 50.0 x 50.0 x 4.0cm, Barbie doll x Acrylic, 2024

Q. It's been three years since I visited Art Square in 2025, following 2022. Is there anything that changed from the time of 2022?

Come to think of it, around the end of 2022, it was when I first came to the professional market by chance. It was something I didn't expect, so I feel like I'm in the eye of a typhoon right now, which is going fast. For me, the fact that I expressed my image through work and the question mark about myself and the world is the most intense, so the rest is actually hard to feel or care about. Looking back at the situation around me, I'm still puzzled, but I think I saved myself because the beginning of my work was salvation itself, and now it's hard to imagine a completely different life. I feel grateful to meet people who like my work, who recognize me, support me, and be with me. I'm looking forward to sharing it with all of you and moving forward.

▲ DEEP FREEZE, 91.0 x 116.8cm, Acrylic on canvas, 2023

Q. Please tell me the way you express the topic or know-how in your work.

I don't have any know-how. I'm following my current heart. It's just an instinct. These days, the expression method of my work is often expressed at once by the image itself that pops up. If you feel like you need it, you can compress it more simply to reach the essence, and it's a lot of fun to refine it into an image that you can intuitively notice at a glance. It's fun to plant hints so that you can infer them by placing the metaphor and imagine who will notice the intention. The way of expression or the shape of the material can change at any time and can be derived in various ways depending on the flow of my intuition. And that option is always on myself.

▲ GO ASK ALICE, 80.3 x 80.3cm, Barbie doll X Acrylic, 2024

Q. Is there any message you want to convey through the exhibition?

I think each visitor's feeling and accepting in my different work will be their own message.


Q. Tips for audiences to appreciate a work?

Shine yourself like a mirror.

▲ WITCH HUNT, 28.0 x 35.0cm, Barbie doll X Acrylic, 2023

Q. What are your work plans for the future and if you have any aspirations or dreams as a writer?

The self-expansion made by working for myself creates a virtuous cycle in which the self-expansion of others also contributes to the self-expansion of others. I think that's one of the ways I practice love to myself and the world and that's why I have to exist here.

▲ 삼중주, 80.0 x 80.0cm, Acrylic on canvas, 2024