NEXUS Artist talk
Minds and Matter - Jazoo Yang
with elizabeth Kang & paula Böke

01 July 2022

As part of the exhibition “Minds and Matter I REMEMBERING FRAGMENTS OF SPACE“ Kang Contemporary hosted two thematically connected Artist Talk. The focus of the discussions was the unique way in which each artist approached space and cityscapes as central themes in their works. Focusing on intrusions and intersections, therefore, denying any isolation between Art, Space, and People complicates these entities and troubles the clarity of interpretation. At the same time, it opens the possibility of discovering a plethora of connections and correlations which are tangent to everyday life.

Jazoo Yang has made a practice of discovering the extraordinary in the mundane. She explores construction zones, parks, and abandoned buildings in search of materials for her works. The artist then eternalizes them in resin molds. Her art pieces are memories of buildings and sometimes entire neighborhoods that no longer exist, but used to be vivid clusters of social life. They visualize the constant radical and sometimes brutal change life in the city entails. She assembles this rubble, which is usually seen as a source of irritation and chaos into abstract compositions of colors and shapes. In a post-industrial- age that gentrifies developing cityscapes before they can gasp for air, she turns to a more appropriate medium than paint on canvases.