WHO ARE YOU ?

Mix media on canvas. 40 X 50 CM. 2016 Collection: Game Changer Relic No. GCE-V.O01 4TH 2017 ARTSLANT PRIZE WINNER. Energetic Function: A stabilizer relic designed to ground quantum chaos into graceful structure during moments of personal or planetary collapse. Symbolic Role: It is the first emissary—the one who rises from the ashes of lost recognition to declare: “I will continue, even here.” “Who Are You?” marks a crystallization point in the Game Changer Era, where scale was reduced but dimensional gravity intensified. A slender figure—part skeletal elegance, part extraterrestrial envoy—emerges from a volcanic basin of deep violet. The material density (pearlescent droplets, metallic shards, and layered paint textures) speaks of resource scarcity transformed into sovereign opulence. This relic embodies the artist’s first psychological shift: from expansive gesture to quantum compression. On a neuroscientific level, this piece initiates a shift in visual cognition. The eye expects balance from such a small canvas—but is destabilized instead by the vertical thrust, the off-axis centrality, and the texture variations. It hacks the brain’s assumptions about scale and gravity, inviting neural recalibration through aesthetic tension. CURATORIAL COMMENTARY by Dong-hyun Yoon Archive for Trans-Contextual Inquiry, ATI Seoul/Berlin.