Myunggyun You

Biography

When I come into contact with You Myung Gyun's work, I feel a certain "expansion" or “spatiality." How do I put it? The appearance, state, and spread of Mother Nature - those words come to mind. When his work is shown as a painting, I feel the world of “flow” in which the flow of time and the expansion of space becomes one. When shown as a three-dimensional work, I feel the world of “roots” that I will encounter if I go underground or to the state of the sources of life. Or in his installation work, I feel like I have encountered a big creature that appeared in the early stages of life. And in every work, "Human" is neither a shadow nor a figure. Perhaps, not yet. This work feels as though it is from the primitive world of nature before humans. Photosynthesis has a history of 3.2 billion years, but Homo sapiens are only 200,000 to 190,000 years old.