{"id":63796,"date":"2026-08-27T13:31:58","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T04:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kiaf.org\/?post_type=insights&#038;p=63796"},"modified":"2026-08-27T13:34:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T04:34:07","slug":"%eb%b3%b4%eb%a6%ac%ec%9c%a4-%ea%b0%9c%ec%9d%b8%ec%a0%84","status":"publish","type":"insights","link":"https:\/\/kiaf.org\/en\/insights\/63796","title":{"rendered":"Blooming Text"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bori Yoon<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-63797\" src=\"https:\/\/static-edge.kiaf.org\/web\/2026\/08\/26101817\/Run-26-3-80.3x116.8cm-Cut-magazine-pieces-on-canvas-2026.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Bori Yoon, Run-26-3, 80.3&#215;116.8cm, Cut magazine pieces on canvas, 2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Bori Yoon employs an original collage technique in which she collects text from magazines and newspapers, slices it into fine strips, and arranges these fragments on canvas to create images. While the articles from which the texts are taken serve as vehicles for conveying social messages, once dismantled, the words lose their original meaning and take on an entirely new significance as visual elements.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-63830\" src=\"https:\/\/static-edge.kiaf.org\/web\/2026\/08\/27130912\/Weaving-a-Story-flower-25-2-162.2x130.3cm-Cut-magazine-pieces-on-canvas-2025-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"900\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Bori Yoon, Weaving a Story-flower-25-2, 162.2&#215;130.3cm, Cut magazine pieces on canvas, 2025<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Bori Yoon\u2019s art works begins with the question of how the conflicts and contradictions embedded in the realities of everyday life can be transformed into something aesthetic. By deconstructing fragmented stories of society and translating them into idealized, poetic images, she explores not only the beauty of the visual image but also the possibility of reflection on contemporary society and the healing potential of art.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-63810\" src=\"https:\/\/static-edge.kiaf.org\/web\/2026\/08\/26115514\/Weaving-a-Story-flower-25-11-33.4x24.2cm-cut-magazine-pieces-on-canvas-2025.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"900\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Bori Yoon, Weaving a Story-flower-25-11, 33.4&#215;24.2cm, cut magazine pieces on canvas, 2025<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Her solo exhibition \u300cBlooming Text\u300d, presented at Gallery Imazoo, unfolds around a title that can be understood as both \u201ctext in bloom\u201d and \u201copening text.\u201d Like a preface that welcomes readers before the main body of a book, the title serves as an opening to the exhibition\u2014a threshold into a space where a fairy-tale-like story begins.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-63812\" src=\"https:\/\/static-edge.kiaf.org\/web\/2026\/08\/26115533\/Weaving-a-Story-flower-26-2-116.8x91cm-Cut-magazine-pieces-on-canvas-2026.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"900\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Bori Yoon, Weaving a Story-flower-26-2, 116.8x91cm, Cut magazine pieces on canvas, 2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It also reflects Gallery Imazoo\u2019s curatorial gesture of reading her works and distilling the thoughts and impressions they evoke. At the same time, the title alludes to Yoon\u2019s own process: opening the pages of magazines and allowing something new to bloom from them.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-63811\" src=\"https:\/\/static-edge.kiaf.org\/web\/2026\/08\/26115522\/Weaving-a-Story-flower-26-3-72.7x60.6cm-Cut-magazine-pieces-on-canvas-2026.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"900\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Bori Yoon, Weaving a Story-flower-26-3, 72.7&#215;60.6cm, Cut magazine pieces on canvas, 2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Standing before these images, where letters stripped of their original meaning blossom once again into beautiful landscapes, we are invited to discover a possibility in which reality and fantasy do not erase one another, but coexist. Blooming Text offers a moment to pause before this delicate transformation and consider how fragments of our complicated reality might be reassembled into images of beauty, contemplation, and renewal.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>Gallery Imazoo<br \/>\nSeoul, Gangnam-gu, Teheran-ro 20-gil,12, B1<br \/>\n+82 02 557 1950<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imazoo.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WEB<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/galleryimazoo.official\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Instagram<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","categories":[50,51],"class_list":["post-63796","insights","type-insights","status-publish","hentry","category-insight","category-stories"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.0","language":"en","enabled_languages":["ko","en"],"languages":{"ko":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false}}},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kiaf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/insights\/63796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kiaf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/insights"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kiaf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/insights"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kiaf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kiaf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}