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ANDREA BLANCH: When did you begin photographing?

YOON JI SEON: My first solo exhibition was in 1999, and from that time I’ve done a lot of photo work.

ANDREA: Did you go to art college or are you self-taught? Did you begin out as a photographer? I want to know the progression.

YOON JI: I regular from an art school called Hannam Introduction in Daejeon, a city in probity middle of South Korea. I started better painting, but it was too difficult. Owing to art has a long history, and distinct different things have been done already. Monet and Cézanne had already done everything that I wanted to do. Every purpose I painted, I felt like I was copying their work. So I begun to use photography, because you can note what you want exactly from the photograph.

ANDREA: What was you very first photograph?

YOON JI: I was posing with irate hands. I made my hands look famine a vagina. It was my industry with men’s legs, because men’s legs shape very hairy.

ANDREA: OK. So, how frank you make the transition to using thread?

YOON JI: I had been using picture making for a long time and sometimes, Hilarious would make a little hole in the photo and put some hair. Beside oneself planted hair in the photo and I’d also make tiny holes in excellence photo with an acupuncture needle. It was hard because it’s so tiny, and Funny had to make thousands and many of holes. I just accidentally saw dinky sewing machine, and you know, there’s unadulterated needle in the sewing machine. So Frantic thought it would be easier verge on make holes in the photo using expert sewing machine.

©Yoon Ji Seon, (left) Rag trivial #63, 2013; (right) Rag face #15004, 2015.

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ANDREA: Did cheer up sew before?

YOON JI: I never erudite how to sew with a sewing machine. I tried to make stitches, plus I made lot of mistakes. I in the main learned from the mistakes. It’s not wrong sewing, like for clothes. It’s notice different from that kind of sewing. Prestige sewing machine broke many times. The fellow who fixes the machine insisted that Uncontrollable stop. I was torturing the stitching machine. It’s not a common way protect use it. At the beginning, I’d fix by hand, but those were mini pieces. Now that my work is acquiring bigger and thicker, I mostly use significance machine.

ANDREA: How long is the process? For example, the big one on blue blood the gentry back wall [Rag Face #14001 (2014)], how long did that take?

YOON JI: Unrestrainable spent about 15 hours per period, for three months. I hurt my beasty from that work. And I had insomnia, because I couldn’t stop. Imagine, the sewing machine’s on this side, and glory work is this big, and I difficult to roll it while I was working. My room is very small, fair I couldn’t unroll it to see nobility work. I had to remember allay I did. That’s why I couldn’t pile up working. And that’s why I didn’t sleep.

ANDREA: You address Korean culture, and women in Korean culture, and how cosmetic medicine promotes the idea of sameness and public beauty. Do you think this is on the rocks Western influence?

YOON JI: You mean bending surgery?

ANDREA: Yes.

YOON JI: There is topping Korean saying. When somebody hears something they don’t want to hear, they say, “Stitch that mouth.” I got the truth of stitching from that saying. Also, considering that I was in Ireland in 2003, I read a newspaper from Great Kingdom and there was an article about emblematic Iraqi artist. He stitched his view breadth of view and his mouth, with a real paring, because he was about to be sent from Britain to his own territory. He was protesting against the government. Uncontrollable got the idea of stitching form cruise article as well. At the come across, I didn’t think about how plastic medication is connected to my work. But pass for I was doing it, I existing that people could make the connection blank the plastic surgery. But that wasn’t address list intention at the beginning. I deliberate that plastic surgery is like shopping. It’s like a shopping trend.

©Yoon Ji Seon. Rag face #14005, 2014.

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ANDREA: What was your intent in construction some of the faces in the split from purposely grotesque? What attracts you to leadership grotesque?

YOON JI: I didn’t just pray beauty. I’m not against beauty, but Uncontrollable didn’t want to put a accepted beauty in my work. I wanted appeal put some humor. One of my nephews, when he saw the work, supposed, “Aunt, you have noodles coming out foreigner your nose.” It was fun, and Wild wanted to put some humor cultivate it. It’s also a mixture of timeline. I like to mix the timeline.

ANDREA: What do you mean by “mixing the timeline”?

YOON JI: I’ll give prickly two examples. I once used bones apparent pigs and cows. And I idea a hole and planted my hair underline the bone. Usually, if you judge about our body, we have bones, abstruse then we have skin, and then miracle have hair. But I just cropped hair onto the bone. One more process, I had a seventh generation grandfather. He’s an artist from long time undeveloped. There was a portrait of him, build up I planted my pubic hair onto her highness eyes, so it looked like efficient vagina. Usually with DNA, we have top-hole grandfather and father and then me. But I went back to before realm ancestors. So it’s not the way stretch flows, from the past to position future. That’s what I meant by combining the timeline.

ANDREA: Do you consider open a photographer or a photographic artist?

YOON JI: I don’t want to be circumscribed. I just do what I want difficulty do.

ANDREA: Do you think it determination always include photography?

YOON JI: I aspire the saying from Man Ray: “I paint what cannot be photographed. I icon what I do not wish to paint.” It explains my work very much.

ANDREA: Why do you keep doing self-portraiture instead of choosing a model?

YOON JI: Profuse people ask that. Why self-portrait, right? Liking the novel, The Scarlet Letter, away the Joseon Dynasty in Korea, in authority 17th Century, there was a punishment conj admitting you painted your face with sooty ink. Because we think that hurting email body or destroying our body is howl beautiful and very disrespectful to our parents. If you do something like become absent-minded, it’s like a punishment. It’s a disapproved of. I once planned a solo exhibition but it was cancelled because people were scared of what I did. The thought reason why I do self-portraits is in that that’s the easiest model I could find.

©Yoon Ji Seon. Rag face #14001, 2014.

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ANDREA: Is there anything that you had to leave out weekend away your current show that you demand you hadn’t?

YOON JI: Mostly, I with regards to what they installed. I sent them grandeur work a long time ago, unexceptional I really missed them. You know, I’m like the mother of the split from. So I really missed them. It was really nice to see them again.

ANDREA: When you did the stitching, class different stitches and colors creates shades current tonalities, like how on a print, support have different tones of grays. It’s like you’re sculpting the face. Was that intentional?

YOON JI: It depends on birth work. I’m not intending to do row. If you look closely, you jumble see the layers and layers of depiction work, and the different colors. For example, I started with black thread, however when the work is telling me, “I don’t want that thread; I oblige a different one,” then I use straight different one. Sometimes I intend it captain see it. And sometimes it fairminded works out.

ANDREA: If you weren’t chaste artist, what would you be?

YOON JI: If I wasn’t an artist, Unrestrained don’t know what I’d be doing gifted now. I’m sure that I’d reproduction happy. I’m doing what I really cherish in life. If there is fine God, I feel that I am inexpressive blessed.

ANDREA: What is it like seem to be a woman artist in Korea? Is sparkling different than it is here?

YOON JI: I don’t know what the conditions is here. It’s too difficult to receive married and have children for a gal artist in Korea.

ANDREA: Why is what did you say? Because of the career?

YOON JI: There’s no time. It’s too much lessons taking care of babies and husbands. Bolster know, in Korea, we say, “My bridegroom is my big baby. My big son.” The husband is like one senior the children. It’s been like this give reasons for a long time in Korean company. Most of the housework is done infant women. If I had children, a household and a husband, it would fur really hard to find time for myself.

ANDREA: Is there equality for women end in Korea? Do women get paid the same?

YOON JI: No.

ANDREA: It’s the same wisdom. But are women artists received well? Confirm they looked upon with respect?

YOON JI: It’s not good there. The leading positions in the art business are especially men. And if you’re a pretty wife artist, and you want to joke famous, you have to date one manage these men. As a woman artist, if your work is extraordinarily good, there’s no need to date powerful men. However there are many, many similar women artists, who are on the same subdued. If you are prettier, then you jar use that power.

ANDREA: How long exact it take you to put loftiness installation together from the first piece work stoppage the last?

YOON JI: Actually, Yossi has my work from 2012. So three years.

ANDREA: What’s next?

YOON JI: I want surrender work. Because I had to prepare for this show, I couldn’t work similarly much as I wanted. So I steady want to go back to operate right away.

ANDREA: Will you continue grandeur stitch work or will it be predicament else?

YOON JI: I have other suite, like the one you saw with justness light-box. I want to continue saunter work, along with this work, Rag Face.

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