▲ 김시숙 초상(Portrait of Si-sook Kim), Color pigment on Hanji, 210x94cm, 2022 ⓒ Suk-nam Yun, Daegu Art MuseumKorean artist Suk-nam Yun who light on Korean women's lives and history, holds a solo exhibition in Daegu.

Yun is the recipient of the 23rd 'Lee InSung Art Prize' in 2022 and is an artist who combines domestic culture and art with modern media through themes such as women, ecology, and history. She is considered a representative artist who pioneered and developed Korean feminist art.

Yun has devoted herself to the subject of 'Women' in the work and has contributed to revealing women's voices and highlighting their subjectivity with a work that contains women's lives, reality, and experiences in Korean society.▲ The installation view ⓒ Daegu Art Museum

She takes stories about her mother, motherhood, and herself as the source of her creation. Since then, the artist has expanded her creative theme to identity, life, and women's history, and has recently focused on reinterpreting women in history.

In the exhibition, the artist presents 20 new colored portraits based on Korean women's independence activists. She painted portraits hoping that female independence activists would be remembered as shining figures, not as lost beings in history.

▲ Pink Room VI, 1998-2021, Mixed ingredients ⓒ Suk-nam Yun, Daegu Art Museum

In addition, the audience can enjoy sculptures depicting the life of an elderly woman who took care of 1,025 abandoned dogs and works of various genres such as 'Pink Room VI', one of the artist's 'Room' series.

The exhibition will be held until December 31st at the Daegu Museum of Art in Daegu.

▲ The poster of the exhibition ⓒ Suk-nam Yun, Daegu Art Museum

Sayart / Nao Yim, yimnao@naver.com