Yuna Choi addresses the stress and fear of completing a work by placing it in a playful distorted context.
Knitting, usually a peaceful activity, becomes an agonising and brutal action, with a humorous dimension.
Yuna Choi
In a closed display case, the artist delicately exhibits a vintage-style dress. She pulls out the thread to knit it again. For six hours, she gradually disappears under the pressure of time. When the final alarm sounds, Yuna puts on this new garment, regardless of its degree of completion, and cuts the link with the first dress.
The dress prompts reflection on transformation, value, and deconstruction-reconstruction. It evokes a legacy. For the artist, it tells a family story, a personal story of vulnerability.
Her family was not in need, but thanks to her father’s physical labour, she was able to study abroad. Yuna felt a deep sense of indebtedness to him. Art, which she had taken up purely for pleasure, had lost its meaning; all that remained was a mixture of impatience and anxiety, and her creations sometimes seemed to her to be nothing more than an expensive hobby.
The repetitive gesture, both fragile and obstinate, questions value, imperfection and intimacy.
Yuna Choi (she/her) was born in South Korea in 1997 and arrived in Brussels in 2017. Currently studying for a Master’s degree in scenography at La Cambre, she is developing a practice focused on narrative imagery. Her work consists of establishing a rule and integrating it into space to create a scenic situation. By executing comical rules, she asks intimate questions of both herself and the audience. In this process, her work oscillates between comedy and tragedy. Yuna Choi participated in the thirteenth edition of the Trouble festival with her performance entitled ‘Sikgu’.
Infos
| DATE | CONTENU |
|---|---|
| 2026/04/251700 |
25.04.2026 17:00 > 23:00 Saint-Josse-ten-Noode |
Lighting: Dominic Hughes
Long-duration performance (6 hours)
Visible from the street.
Free entry, no reservation require