Yoonkyung Jang
Incandescence

Presented in its entirety, the series “Glimpse of us” is composed entirely of portraits of women and offers a highly personal and allegorical perspective of femininity and beauty. Her use of non-digital photography and her treatment of colour and light give her photographs a strong sense of materiality.

In addition to this poetic dimension, Yoonkyung Jang captures the uncertainties and doubts of young people of her generation who, although interconnected, remain isolated, fragmented and sometimes lost in an increasingly globalised world:

“We live in a chaotic world, and the important thing is not to get lost in it” she says.

This is illustrated in her more personal series “Strange Seoul Rave”, a new set of images presented exclusively in the same exhibition. These portraits, in a smaller format than “Glimpse of us”, depict young people, either friends or people she found in the street. They show a young Korean generation eager to reinvent their values.

Yoonkyung Jang reveals a generation of sensitive young Koreans concerned most of all with their innermost identity, their freedom and their sexuality.