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Solin Yoon

어디를 보고 있는지 Guess where you’re looking | 2025 | 7’15”
Courtesy the Artist

Synopsis
Guess where you’re looking (2025) departs from a game played by two friends sitting at the edge of a lake, each guessing where the other's gaze falls. As J traces the pastoral landscape they are looking at onto S's skin with a push pin, S's sensitive skin reacts to the stimulation—and slowly, over time, the marks begin to surface. Through the temporal gap between the act of tracing and the moment the marks appear, the work reveals the layered residue of relationship, memory, and emotion that persists on the body long after the direct act has ended. Here, skin becomes more than a boundary of the body—it is a surface where sensation, contact, intimacy, and anxiety are made visible. Landscape, too, is no longer a distant backdrop, but an image that touches and inscribes itself onto the body. Within this intimate yet precarious situation—a pin pressing against skin—the work brings different registers into contact: skin and landscape, nature and nation, tattoo and play. As water flows along the surface of the earth, continuously regenerating boundaries and surfaces, the work reveals the body as a sensory site, one through which the traces of relation pass, linger, and slowly fade.


About the artist
Solin Yoon is a multidisciplinary artist working across installation, video, and photography. Her practice examines the tensions embedded within relational structures, approaching vulnerability not as weakness but as a fundamental condition through which we sense and connect with others. She focuses on sensations that resist easy articulation—skin and surface, body and landscape, intimacy and anxiety—exploring how traces left on the body reveal the nature of relationships and emotion. Her solo exhibitions include shows at Yojeummisul (2025), Onsu-gonggan (2023), and Post Territory Ujeongguk (2021). Her international residencies include the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (USA), Proyecto Ace (Argentina), Vermont Studio Center (USA), Homesession Barcelona (Spain), and Suwon Art Studio. She is a recipient of the Multidisciplinary Arts Creation Grant (2025) and the Arko Creative Academy grant (2023) from Arts Council Korea (ARKO). Her work has been presented at DMA, SNUMoA, SIFF, and NeMAF, among others.