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Installation view of One Two One Two Toddler by You Hyeonkyeong, from the duo show The Untranslated, curated by Yeni Ma. You Hyeonkyeong One Two One Two Toddler, 2020 Oil on canvas 298 x 197 cm You Hyeonkyeong’s painting sets out from the opposite direction. Rather than looking outward, she waits for something within. The brushwork that appears fast and rough is in fact something that has long been gathering—bursting forth only after sustained stillness. For You, the figures and landscapes that appear on her canvases are not there to be depicted; they are vehicles for an interior state. One Two One Two Toddler, painted in Berlin shortly after her move there, belongs to a period when homesickness drew her back to childhood as a subject. The vast scale of the canvas and the sweeping gestures of its marks carry something else: a kind of defiance, a will toward bodily possibility, in the wake of an accident in Korea that had left her body impaired. Text by Yeni Ma.

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