Flowers that swallow one's desires
Kim Boggi, the publisher and editor of ‘art in culture’, and Kyongggi University Professor
A flower opened up all over the body. The exhilarating pistil and surgery show off the peak. Another flower is lying quietly.
Are you waiting for your body to open, or are you going to collapse and die?
Yoon Young-hye is an artist who paints still life. She paints a stillness in her mind, a new one that is beyond the cliché.
So all the circumstances on the screen are intentionally set by the painter. She draws flowers that are usually rotated on a
transparent dish (sometimes on a white plate) on the table. However, the screen surrounding the still is not as pretty as it is.
The main character (still life) is painted as delicately as it really is, but the description of the background is boldly omitted,
driving the screen to a thrilling tension. It reminds me of an object that was spotlighted on the stage of a play, a dimly directed
scene around it. Sometimes, she draws flowers, plates, forks, or spoons at 2 meters to make them feel creepy. They also choose a
unique structure that depicts objects directly or looks down from above. There is always a quiet silence on the screen as if time
had stopped.
The title of the work is ‘Eating Flowers.’ She put flowers in the tableware as if they were food. Yoon Young-hye eats flowers.
Flowers were presented as a symbol of desire, such as appetite. It is a flower that swallows desire. Isn’t our world a sea of desire
filled with what we want to do mentally and physically (eat, own, excrement, and consume)? Yoon Young-hye symbolizes the basic conditions
of life: desire, desire to conceal that desire, outer and inner, or both as flowers. In short, flowers are an alergory to human desires.
After all, flowers are the actors who represent the artist’s mind. The flowers on the screen are in full bloom, but the body withers and
leaves fly away. All the flowers that exist end up disappearing like our lives. Yoon's flowers run to the world beyond beauty.