Press Release
Miscellaneous History
2001


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CATRIONA JEFFRIES GALLERY

Jin-me Yoon
Intersection
April 20 - May 26, 2001

Jin-me Yoon's Intersection project is to-date comprised of four photographic diptychs which use humor to reference, uncover and subvert the prescribed relationship between female reproductive biology and the social imperatives surrounding working women. In past works the mother-child dyad has refused stasis, marginalization and isolation by subverting a socially enforced rift between mind and body, between performance of labor within the work place as well as within the family. For the exhibition at Catriona Jeffries Gallery two works will be from the past body, and two will be new.

Originally inspired by Yoon's experience as a nursing mother, the Intersection works discuss the social values and binary logic of western culture (mind vs. body, culture vs. nature, public vs. private...) which positions the nursing mother as a disruptive presence in society. Motherhood's complexities are discussed through the duality of the physical and the psychological, bringing up culturally taboo issues such as maternal ambivalence. Yoon's juxtaposition of motherhood's ties and the necessity of the (working) mother's mobility are referenced through the language of commercial imagery, employing the seductive slickness of advertising. The new Intersection works continue to examine the role of the female artist. In doing this, Yoon recalls the history of the woman artist, perhaps most strongly linked to Mary Kelly's Post -Partum Document and her process of incorporating documents of motherhood into her practice.


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