Yeesookyung
Constellation Gemini

Yeesookyung's Constellation Gemini is an extension of the artist's major body of work, Translated Vase. A Thousand pieces of Translated Vase are installed on the 12-sided pedestal in the center of the exhibition space. From fragmented pieces of ceramics to transformed ceramic works, the ceramics at different stages come together as one work in the center of the exhibition like a constellation. Unlike the artist's methodology in previous works in which the ceramics were presented as completed forms, Constellation Gemini signifies that the artist has arrived at a point where her thoughts are not hindered by her material or subject.
    The exhibition subject of Yeesookyung's work is "symmetry," which references the work process involved in producing her perfectly bilateral symmetrical paintings which mobilize both hands. This concept, which begins as an attribute in a personal method of production, goes beyond something personal and extends to the symmetrical 'Kyobangchoom'(traditional Korea dance), scroll works and installations. These symmetrical images - symbolizing elements that are identical but different, the self but the other, singular but simultaneously double - fill the exhibition space while healing and bridging gaps between the fragmented self and other. Yee's work discovers the other in the self and the self in the other, accepting the unity between the self and other and thus acknowledging the presence of the other.