Bae, Soo young

The installation artist, Bae Soo Young

who feels nature and makes it to breath in the center of a city.

On the hazing asphalted road of downtown, the life pattern of busy city people is going to be more single standard and more typical in this society. In this situation, how dare which artists could paint the color on achromatic color of the city, and bring out the liveliness? Especially it is really difficult to survive if you don’t compromise or adopt in the demands of the times. Is there someone still existing who could do it?

The installation artists, Bae Soo Young, who is born in Korea and working actively all around between China and Japan now, as she adapts moderately to that demands of the times and harmonizes artistic creative thorough, she is going to move toward an eco friendly project which has understanding of green environment and beautiful urban landscape.

For example of her eco friendly works, she chosen ‘the moss’ which has functionalities; an air cleaning, maintaining humidity and temperature control, and remedial value that effect on mental stability as a material of the arts. And she created the works with using this moss that has a fantastic combination of moss and filter of cigarette which is very harmful to human and environment. She made up the extra ordinary idea which the cigarette is new leaves sprouting from it by those two materials, and it is exhibiting on Theater Zero in front of Hong Ik University now. Also, she picked up the abandoned bottle as sources of an objet, has carried on an art project of abandoned bottle after drinking.

One of those examples might be a plastic bottle in her works ‘Purity’. First, she cleans up the bottle thoroughly after using the product. And then she success to adopt the new way of marbling that painted color quickly over the bottle before drying the manicure, applying the characteristics of a manicure which could not mix with water. But she didn’t finish in there, also gives the rhythm on it by connecting the EL fiber cable, eventually she transform the bottle from the trash after drinking to the beautiful works.

In the works of her, she always puts the eco friendly, green environment and voluntary participation of the public first above all. Also it is very important to her not to be afraid of the experimental challenges. There is a previously untold story that someone calls her by ‘genius’ when he saw that she creates the works by the trash, leaves, and even the food waste; like a peel of sea squirt abandoned from Japanese restaurant. It shows you exactly who she is and what she has done.

In 2009, she presented us very interesting experiment called by ‘Razzle Dazzle’. ‘Razzle Dazzle’ is a one of her major work which is dividing a box shaped space into two, and then make a whole in the one side of the wall that could be possible to watch the hidden art works carefully through a big mirror of that small hole, even though another side is totally exposed to outside through by cover with plastic vinyl. During people watch it, they feel a kind of pleasure to watch secretly. The work of ‘Razzle Dazzle’ is a good case to show you what kind of artist she is. This case is a new attempt to add a participation of audience directly on general way to watch the arts.

Actually it is quite an unusual example that creates the works, installs it and prepares more performance for communication with audience especially in the reality of Korean arts. However, she keeps making a constant effort to study the various installation arts which could communicate easier and friendlier way with artists and audiences, each other in the genre of art. In brief, the most important point of this is the communication with an audience along the considering of exhibition place and the changes of type to watch the works going after by the movement of exhibition space.

She created the installation works which called ‘The General Gift Sets of Exhibition and Performance’ at the Cultural Street in front of Hong Ik University, for participating of Korea Experimental Arts Festival on September 2009. It was a whole new experience to take out the art which is always limited by indoor in consort with local residents and the general public. This project of her was highly esteemed that it was a success results of the experimental challenges with a participation of local residents as an artistic public of the city. Furthermore, it had attracted naturally voluntary participation from the public, not forced by one side.

Now, July 2010, it is the time to come up the new products of her, Bae Soo young, who has something different with others. If you know about the works she has done, and an inexhaustible ideas from her, it could explain enough reason that you should be expecting it.

The eco-friendly, environment-friendly, eco, environment, green art, all of those are exactly what we want and wait for until now. All of these words might be the gift which she finally would give us.

BAE SOO YOUNG

Personal Information

Born in Seoul on January 12, 1973

Education

B.A. in Art, Department of Art Planning (Curator course), Osaka Art College, B.A. 2004

Completion in master program in Art (Dancing Direction –Installation), Osaka Art College, 2006

Enrolled in Ph. D program in Art – Sculpture (Installation), Osaka Art College, 2008

2010 NOW Graduate School of Tokyo Institute of Arts CHent Co., Ltd. Art section General Manager

Planning and Exhibition

2009. 2. 28 [Encounters of Hospital and Art 2] Curatorship at Apgujung subway station, Seoul

2009,3, 22 -4,1 [a variable artist group exhibition] plan Osaka HAYTTgallery planning.

2009,9.9-9.13 Korea Experimental Arts Festival Create An Art City project

[Exhibitions, performances comprehensive gift set ]

2010 Zero Sangsangmadang Theater [ZERO cultural station project, Theater Zero]

VAP group projects

2010 Seoul Open Art Fair Gallery Booth & CH business Booth, director of as a whole exhibits