Miran Yang

Solo Exhibition

A Place on the Moon

March 06 - March 2, 2022

Kunsthalle Darmstadt Studio West-Ausstellung Nr. 7, Darmstadt, Germany

Painting and drawing

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Since time immemorial, creativity and melancholy have worked in tandem in a peculiar way: madness causes the arts to soar, while despondency draws them downward. Duerer’s prominent engraving Melencolia I comes to mind. Is it only a contact with the depths of the soul that gives rise to artistic genius? On the other hand, depression as a modern, clinical diagnosis of mental illness is anything other than productive: gloomy and listless, its sufferer spends day after day in bed.

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In her works, the Korean artist Miran Yang gives shape to the various manifestations of psychological pain. Despite the heaviness of the themes, her manner of painting is remarkably light: delicate brushstrokes; simplified, even playful chalk drawings — here a blossom, there an earthworm. Yang creates a pictorial world that responds seriously to the memories of childhood. Not infrequently, the causes of psychological suffering are to be found in this period of a person’s life.

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