Alice Yaelin Yang

Alice Yaelin Yang, Heaven Baby 03, 2023, 20x20cm,inkjet print, acrylic on canvas made in conversation with AI,

SARAHCROWN is delighted to announce the upcoming solo exhibition, “The Book of I,” featuring evocative works of emerging Korean artist Alice Yaelin Yang. The exhibition, set to captivate audiences from November 30 to January 10, 2024, showcases a unique fusion of traditional Korean elements and cutting-edge Artificial Intelligence.

SARAHCROWN, Alice Yaelin Yang “The Book of I” exhibition, installation view, 2023

The Book of I unfolds like an Epic theater play. The protagonists are sculptural works made with traditional Korean architectural and domestic elements such as an original guardian pole (a Jangseung Korean. Korean: 장승), a hanging scroll ( a Jokja. Korean: 족자), and a folding screen (a Byeong-poong. Korean: 병풍 ). The artist used a Brechtian Verfremdungseffekt (“estrangement effect” or “alienation effect”) depleting the object’s original functions and assigning them multiple roles and meanings through painterly elements leveraged through the use of Artificial Intelligence (DALL·E 2).

SARAHCROWN, Alice Yaelin Yang “The Book of I” exhibition, installation view, 2023

To create her new canvases and painted elements, Yang feeds the software with images of her own paintings and AI prompts with the request to deconstruct and re-narrate them. (DALL·E 2) “answers” with newly generated images which Yang uses in a third step as a background to paint new works, slightly emboldening the narrative further. The results are paintings made of many physical and conceptual layers, either minimalistic and quiet or gestural and busy like Hienorymous Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights.

Alice Yaelin Yang, New Adult, 2023, inkjet print, acrylic on canvas made in conversation with AI, 30x30cm

In executing these works through her conversational approach with AI, and making them integral part of sculptural elements, Yang creates an experiential exhibition that is a captivating exploration of her own identity and boundaries within a visual context. Furthermore, the participatory aspect requires the audience to question their own perspectives and to reexamine the boundaries between digital image and conventional art making.

SARAHCROWN, Alice Yaelin Yang “The Book of I” exhibition, installation view, 2023

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