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Seyoon Yoon (b. 1998) is a Tampere/Seoul-based visual artist. She works with various mediums such as photography, installations, and painting. Yoon often reflects on human emotions, exploring our deepest, most sensitive feelings through her artwork. Regardless of medium, her works are commonly expressive and sentimental.

Yoon was born and raised in Seoul, South Korea, and moved to Finland in 2018 for her Media and Art Bachelor’s degree at TAMK. Living in a different environment has been the biggest stimulation of her progress which helps expand her point of view through various experiences. Her work for the degree show, Rush me like water, I’d be happy to be drowned, combines elements of Asian historical painting and contemporary art to portray the feeling of love.

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RUSH ME LIKE WATER,I’D BE HAPPY TO BE DROWNED

Rush me like water, I’d be happy to be drowned intends to stimulate visual sensation and to explore the pure, delicate emotion arising from the feeling of love. The work represents a visual language of love that reflects Yoon’s cultural heritage.

The artwork is a visual reinterpretation of 무릉도원 (mureungdowon) – a concept of Utopia from Asian culture. The five-panel painting – inspired by folding screens – emulates the idea of love as an emotional isolation. Korean painting techniques were maintained while implementing elements of Western contemporary art. The work asks the questions: Have you fallen in love, and what is love to you?

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