Face woven through the act of weaving.

• Artistic expressions using photography are becoming increasingly diverse. In the scene of contemporary art, the use of photography seems to test the limits of imagination. Yoon Ji-sun's rag face series are all made by embroidering patterns on her face photos using a sewing machine. The first step in this process is the act of photographing her face with a camera. Standing in front of the camera would have started with an experience similar to looking at her face through a mirror. The process of looking closely at the appearance that cannot be confirmed without a mirror, that is, a camera, makes it possible to recognize the self that is distinguished from others by facing oneself. However, if, like Yoon, she has been photographing her face intensively for a long time through repetitive work, the camera goes beyond the function of the mirror that simply reflects the self and adds the role of the stage that enables active self-expression. .
  If it becomes possible to reveal the inner self that was difficult to show to others or that has never been conscious before in front of the camera through expressions and eyes, it starts to show specific emotions or thoughts actively through the mask of her face like an actor standing on a small stage. At this stage, the camera becomes a strict director and a cheering audience. . Standing in front of such a camera would have been a time of struggle for Yoon to remake herself. .
• The interesting characteristic of her work appears in the next stage of work. It is to cover the face that she confirmed, discovered, and developed in front of the camera again. Completing her work is the act of covering it through sewing on the face. It requires a somewhat radical execution of pricking with a needle and sewing with thread. Considering that self-love cannot be excluded from the psychological basis for self-portraits, such behavior cannot but be a paradoxical choice. Therefore, it is not appropriate to understand sewing that follows the act of actively revealing oneself in front of the mirror as simply covering the face. Her sewing should be seen as a process closer to 'making' than 'covering'.
• In the completed work in this way, her face became a face she created herself, excluding the persona as an external character that appears to others. We can't fully guess how fierce the whole process was for her, but we can guess from the shock sensed in front of the completed works. Traditional Korean recognition considers that the body, hair, and skin received from parents should be cherished as the beginning of filial piety. This is a teaching from the Chinese scripture 'Xiao Jing', and in Korea, which still emphasizes filial piety to ancestors as an important virtue and norm, it still has important value. One of the reasons why her work has not been greatly spotlighted in Korea so far may be that this challenge to the taboo has acted as a barrier. In front of her face, we feel both caution and longing for the one who overcame the taboo. The face she first took in the photo is what she received from her parents regardless of her will. Just as you can't choose to be born, the face you're born with is realized on its own through the growth process by genes. Such restrictions are also tasks to overcome for humans who want to recognize themselves as unique beings. Yoon attempted to challenge the given conditions and limits through taboo-breaking behavior. The will to choose her face was her own choice to form an independent self. It would have been a process of finding a face to build herself, not a face to show someone. During the time we face Yoon's work, the beginning and end of the gaze stay in her eyes. The eyes left as the only clue to show how the beginning of this work was among the colorful and densely filled threads are the only clues to show the past (her erased) that cannot be found in the hair decorated with colorful threads and the intricately organized face, and the present that is still not completed and is eagerly looking for her own face. And also, in her eyes, our figure struggling to make ourselves with the same worries is reflected.