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Shore
Jin Yang-ping - Records of Isolation Encountered at Shore
This work "Shore" by Chinese artist Jin Yang-ping, created during pandemic 2022-2024, shows 100 drawings installed along the wall like images on clothesline.
Jin experimentally expands painting language where traditional East Asian aesthetics meet contemporary Western visual culture, transforming ink painting's monochromaticity into contemporary sculptural language.
This work captures isolation, anxiety, and repetitive daily emotions through drawing and video. The artist recorded static postures during social distancing—sitting people, hands covering heads, blank stares.
Black ink images on grid paper look like emotional afterimages from pandemic's frozen time. Repeating figures create emotional strata through records and residues.
This work allows viewers to walk, read each image, stop, and re-enter flow. From distance, static scenes connect like temporal flow.
Monitor video expands drawing into movement, forming visual rhythm between media. Static drawings and moving video intersect, creating sensory rhythm between stillness and flow.
"Shore" is both physical space and metaphorical boundary. Between land and sea, individual and collective, the artist explores new communication sensibility during isolation.
Based on globally experienced emotions, this work suggests possibility of emotional solidarity between East Asian civilizations, building massive emotional topography from pandemic experience.
Jin experimentally expands painting language where traditional East Asian aesthetics meet contemporary Western visual culture, transforming ink painting's monochromaticity into contemporary sculptural language.
This work captures isolation, anxiety, and repetitive daily emotions through drawing and video. The artist recorded static postures during social distancing—sitting people, hands covering heads, blank stares.
Black ink images on grid paper look like emotional afterimages from pandemic's frozen time. Repeating figures create emotional strata through records and residues.
This work allows viewers to walk, read each image, stop, and re-enter flow. From distance, static scenes connect like temporal flow.
Monitor video expands drawing into movement, forming visual rhythm between media. Static drawings and moving video intersect, creating sensory rhythm between stillness and flow.
"Shore" is both physical space and metaphorical boundary. Between land and sea, individual and collective, the artist explores new communication sensibility during isolation.
Based on globally experienced emotions, this work suggests possibility of emotional solidarity between East Asian civilizations, building massive emotional topography from pandemic experience.