Hyesun Yeom
Hyesun Yeom was born and raised in Korea and is a fourth-year bachelor of Glasgow School of Art in 2022. I’m working on people’s unconsciousness crossing into reality, and the posture revealed in the unconsciousness.
The theme of the current work is that emotions or imaginations that cannot be expressed in reality or society are suppressed in unconsciousness. In that society, when people experience negative emotions, they lower their heads, clench their fists, or clench their teeth to suppress their unconsciousness, and that’s where I focus on bringing up the topic. My project has a critical aspect to society, but on the other hand, it implicitly represents the unconsciousness of the oppressed.
Bow your Head (2022)
It is said that human consciousness accounts for about 5%, and unconsciousness accounts for about 95%. I have various perspectives on the 95 per cent unconsciousness, which is still an unknown area, in that we live with only about 5 per cent consciousness. I noticed that people usually take a typical posture when caught up in a certain emotion or when they encounter reality. I’ve come to this realm of unconsciousness, and we’ve started to focus on the fact that each person has a subconscious, a kind of raw emotion.
It is said that the attitudes and actions that I did when I felt various emotions in the past, and the actions that I did when people around me were overwhelmed by emotions, were mainly when people’s consciousness was disturbed and unconsciousness came up for a moment. The theme of the current work is that emotions or imaginations that cannot be expressed in reality or society are suppressed in unconsciousness. In that society, when people experience negative emotions, they lower their heads, clench their fists, or clench their teeth to suppress their unconsciousness, and that’s where I focus on bringing up the topic.
My project has a critical aspect to society, but on the other hand, it implicitly represents the unconsciousness of the oppressed.
Gone (2022)
This work is also about unconsciousness, and I chose myself as the topic. I felt defensive about the theme of hair, and I thought that it was also being used as an object to hide myself. So I decided to do photography work to show this effectively.
