작업 소개

57STUDIO는 국립현대미술관의 전시 프로그램인 ‘젊은모색2019’ 전시의 미디어 콘텐츠로 아티스트 인터뷰 시리즈를 기획 및 제작하였습니다. 이번 전시의 부제인 ‘액체 유리 바다’는 서로 다른 주제와 매체를 각자의 개성으로 다루는 참여 작가 9명에게서 발견한 공통의 키워드에서 출발하였습니다. 인터뷰 시리즈는 각 작가의 작품 세계와 전시 취지를 효과적으로 전달하기 위해 제작되었으며, 작가들의 창작 과정, 작업에 대한 생각, 그리고 전시에 대한 개인적인 관점을 담아 관람객들이 전시에 대한 이해와 몰입도를 높일 수 있도록 구성되었습니다.

윤두현 작가는 밝고 유쾌한 태도로 가상과 현실의 경계에 대해서 질문하는 작가입니다. 이 작가가 최근 주로 사용하고 있는 재료는 바로 맥 OS의 바탕화면인데요. 이 바탕화면 이미지들을 포토샵으로 압축하고 재조립하고 출력하고 다시 오려 붙이는 이 과정들을 통해서 바탕화면이라고 하는 우리가 가장 익숙하게 받아들이는 이미지들을 낯설고 경쾌하고 즐거운 방식으로 풀어내고 있습니다.

– 최희승 큐레이터

57STUDIO planned and produced an artist interview series as part of the media content for the Young Korean Artists2019, a program by the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art. The exhibition’s subtitle, Liquid, Glass, Sea, was inspired by a common keyword discovered across the nine participating artists, who each approach different themes and media with their own unique perspectives. The interview series was created to effectively communicate each artist’s artistic world and the exhibition’s intent. It captures the artists’ creative processes, their thoughts on their work, and their personal views on the exhibition, helping viewers deepen their understanding and engagement with the exhibition.

Yoon Doohyun is an artist who, with a bright and cheerful attitude, questions the boundaries between virtual and real worlds. The material he has been primarily using recently is the desktop wallpaper of macOS. Through the process of compressing, reassembling, printing, and cutting and pasting these wallpaper images in Photoshop, he reinterprets the familiar images we encounter every day in a strange, lively, and playful way.

– Choi Heeseung (Curator)

Hello, my name is Yoon Doohyun. I mainly work in installation.
My work is usually inspired by a computer desktop screen. The desktop image is manipulated through programs like Photoshop and printed and cut up manually. Sometimes it’s printed out again and folded, or made into sculptures and pasted. I try to give the feeling of going back and forth between digital and analog.

The desktop images are so familiar that they’re almost like scenes we might see on a stroll. I started using the images because they’re like everyday landscapes. I’m building structures that can keep on reinterpreting the desktop images in different ways. I don’t want to place any restrictions on myself. I’m curious as to what form or image results from such process, and wish to express them in a playful and humorous way.

I often try to incorporate geometric or pixel-like feeling to my works. Simple forms are easy to keep distant from the image. I’m continuously drawn to such geometric forms, because expressing the original image in different ways is a geometry-like pattern, and work can be interpreted in various ways when geometry is stripped of symbolism. I’ve always been interested in sculptures as well.

I attempt to always give this sense of tension and dependence in sculptural works, and put something inside the sculpture to give it a sense of structure. I imagine a ball. It’s about bouncing that ball, and creating new paths to whichever directions it goes. As these paths are created, the gaps between them keep widening. But also, it might not matter how you look at it. That’s how I want my work to be, to be enjoyed in a wide variety of ways.

Such work demands all of my senses, so I have no idea how long it would take. A work is fun at first, but I do believe that each iteration can create even better work. I thought about what we can’t possess in the digital time and space. I thought this is an unknown area to us, like something ephemeral or delicately changing. I love documentaries on nature. I’m very interested in that sort of things.

Such massive, mysterious phenomena are difficult to reenact in this sort of structure. It seems that computers are based on linear circuits. The digital world never circulates, but just keep piling on top of the first digital element. It just grows old, always the same as before. But nature is a circular system. I wanted to address that difference.

I thought about the best form for a sculpture when it inhabits a certain space. I thought how minimal material can inhabit the maximum space. This sort of feels like a trap to me.