Artist Yoon Junyoung explores the themes of anxiety, isolation, and existential questioning through the recurring image of a small house. In her work, the house is not a place of comfort, but a fragile, solitary figure set against vast natural landscapes or monumental architecture. It is both a self-portrait and a reflection of our collective inner worlds.

Her quiet compositions—rendered in ink and conté—evoke unfamiliar emotions that rise slowly to the surface. Rather than resisting these emotions, Yoon remains within them, shaping them into contemplative landscapes.

In her recent works, the image of the stone cairn emerges as a central symbol. Like stacking stones one by one, the artist layers emotions, memories, and wounds to build a house of belief on the foundations of uncertainty.

Though seemingly precarious, these houses and cairns stand firm—offering a quiet suggestion that our deepest anxieties can also become the ground for new possibilities.

Aligned with the Biennale’s theme, Neighbors of Civilization, Yoon’s work begins from personal feeling but expands into a landscape of empathy and quiet solidarity.

As we stand before her paintings,
we are invited into that small, silent house—
to face not only her emotions,
but our own.