《Take My Eyes Off》 related Artist workshop 〈Open Compression: Create a Transparent Landscape!〉

The Buk-Seoul Museum of Art presents the Open Compression: Create a Transparent Landscape! workshop in conjunction with the exhibition Take My Eyes Off. Participants will create a vinyl landscape painting follow a step-by-step process devised by artist while creating her work Happy5 (2025) and have time to share the stories behind the scene. 

Image: Yeongbin Yoon, Happy 5, 2020, Mixed Media, 39.8x54.2(cm).

□ Program Details

- Date & Time: Wednesday, June 18, 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM

- Venue: Studio 2, B1, Seoul Museum of Art, Buk-Seoul Museum of Art

- Eligibility: Open to anyone interested in creating a landscape painting

- Capacity: 20 participants

* As part of the workshop, participants will print a landscape photo from their phone's photo gallery. We recommend selecting a meaningful or memorable image in advance.

*This workshop will be conducted in Korean only.

□ Registration Information

- Application Period: Friday, May 23, 10:00 AM – Friday, June 13, 10:00 AM

- How to Apply: First-come, first-served participation is now closed.

- Confirmation Announcement: Friday, June 13, 2:00 PM

*Participants will be selected on a first-come, first-served basis, and those selected will be notified individually via text message.

□ Program Description

Since 2016, Yeongbin Yoon has been developing a series of vinyl drawings that began with the careful observation of everyday landscapes through transparent materials such as windows, screens, and packaging. In this series, the artist combines various materials and photographs inside vinyl sheets to create compressed yet richly layered landscapes. These works capture a single moment from a flood of imagery, sealing together textures and timelines―both visual and tactile―into one frame. Acting as a sensory device, they prompt us to pay closer attention to scenes we may otherwise overlook.

In the workshop Open Compression: Let’s Create a Transparent Landscape Painting!, participants will follow step-by-step instructions developed by the artist during the making of Happy5 (2020) to create their own transparent landscapes. Although everyone follows the same set of instructions, each participant’s choice of materials and photographs, as well as their approach to assembling them, results in a completely unique image―one shaped by personal memories and emotions. Through this process, the artist invites us to reframe the scattered images around us into a singular scene and to rediscover the sensorial act of slowly observing and noticing. Ultimately, this becomes an opportunity to confront the visual nature of our contemporary reality―one that permeates the space and time in which we live.

*If there is someone with whom you share a memory of the scene in your photo, consider joining the workshop together.

□ Artist Introduction

Yeongbin Yoon references and rearticulates the grammar of contemporary processed images and objects through painting. Rather than generating new images as a painter, Yoon faithfully mimics pre-existing objects, landscapes, and images passed on by anonymous creators. In contrast to the screen’s smooth and seamless reproductions, she embraces the gaps and ruptures that emerge in the process of translating an image onto canvas, feeling her way forward through the potential of painting. Recently, she has been exploring the structures of representation that turn objects into images―often using open-source materials―or developing painted surfaces with fine textures and subtle irregularities, in search of a painterly language capable of resisting the digital.

□ Notes

※ This workshop will be conducted in Korean only.

※ Please arrive at least 10 minutes before the program starts to ensure smooth operation.

※ Please cancel at least three days in advance so we can offer your spot to a waitlisted participant.

※ In accordance with Article 15 of the Personal Information Protection Act, the Seoul Museum of Art collects personal information for the purpose of effective program management. You may choose not to consent to the collection of your information; however, doing so may limit your participation in the program.

※ Photography, recording, and surveys may be conducted for documentation, promotion, and research purposes.

(Information retention period: 5 years – Purpose of use: program registration, promotion, research, archiving, etc.

Information collected: name, mobile phone number, email address, photographs/videos taken during the program, recorded audio, etc.)

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