Seung-eon Yi
Seung-eon Yi is a filmmaker working with animation collaged media, based in Seoul.
Her work draws upon memories and the lingering sensations of experiences from her everyday life. Through animation, she revisits these memories, attempting to unearth their traces and the textures of remembrance. Using hand-crafted animation and painterly expressions, she conveys the abstract aspects of memory and emotion in a more intuitive and sensory manner. In doing so, she connects the deeply personal memories within her work to the audience, expanding them into new narratives and chapters.
She focuses on the often-overlooked, small things we unconsciously interact with and build relationships with through physical experience in our daily lives. In a society inundated with processed images, she sees how we live amid fleeting stimuli that are quickly consumed and discarded.
This era of ephemeral virtual experiences and superficial emotions, she believes, has led her to question the nature of "truth," drawing her attention to the intimate emotions and memories accumulated through physical experiences. Unlike "truth" as a collective agreement, the personal, unique truth one feels, she finds, is difficult to define but possesses an enduring, ambiguous quality that resists being forgotten. She explores what sustains an individual’s sense of existence, uncovering tentative answers in the memories formed through everyday life.
Her animated films invite viewers to reflect on what remains as "truth" in our memories, even amidst the constant changes of the external world and our struggles to adapt to them. It offers an opportunity to contemplate these truths and guides the audience into a sensory meditation, encouraging them to reflect on the ephemeral yet profound essence of their own lived experiences.
->seungyi95@gmail.com
->syi7@saic.edu