Mi-Yeon | Eunoia

Mi-Yeon

Born in 1963, Seoul, Based in Tokyo

Mi-Yeon (born Seoul, 1963) is a Seoul-born, Paris-trained, Tokyo-based artist who has worked across photography, writing, and artist books since the early 1990s. Graduating from ICART Photo in Paris in 1991, she has developed a deeply philosophical practice exploring the boundaries between self and other, individual and collective, and the visible and invisible. Drawing from her transnational experience between Seoul, Paris, and Tokyo, her work reflects on identity, memory, spirituality, and the complex relationships that connect individuals to one another and to the world around them.

Artist Statement

When I was little, I thought the only “I” in the world, was me. On reaching primary school and finding myself surrounded by other children of the same age, I was astounded to notice one day that a friend I’ d made also thought of herself as “I,” and possessed her own “my world” of which she was the center. From that day on, doubt about what “I” actually means was planted in my mind.
Engaging with the world through travel, I found the world became you and talked to me. Perhaps there is indeed only one “I” in the universe. Infinite Is dwelling in a single I, those infinite Is various aspects of the single I. When egos engage, to each the other becomes you, and thus a connection is forged.
This series was produced with inspiration from Martin Buber’ s I and Thou, and Eastern philosophy.

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Group Exhibition : AFFORDANCE

Jul 26,2023