Mimi Youn

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During residency at Glogauair, Mimi has collected old photographs: portraits, holiday snapshots and family photos in Flea markets. Once, these photographs were cherished by people, but now they are abandoned, lost objects. It evokes ambiguity and uncanny. Mimi, as an artist, is fond of lost and unknown things. She tries to bring back and meditate about lost time, memory and past lives.

In this project she shows not only old images that she collected here in Berlin but also her family photos and photographs she has taken. She wanted to create a flow based on her imagination in which she wanders without knowing the final destination. She connects old and new images like she plays puzzle and invites the viewer into the times and memories she has created.

Over to you (2021)

This work was created during virtual summer residency at GlogauAIR Berlin in 2020. I was interested in the historical and political aspects of Berlin, so I tried to reconstruct the symbols of the city using archival, stock images.

Studio Berlin (2020)

I collected old Korean photographs that made in the late 19th and early 20th from foreign museums and libraries.

It was interesting to explore the hidden history and ideology of the photo images made in Modernization era:Colonialism and Westernization. I disassembled and recombined images made in a different time and spaces to create new old Korean portraits.

Imaginary Studio (2019~ )

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Here is where we meet (2017)

I received photo donation from local people during my CACP residency programme in Niort, France. (2017). My aim was to recreate new shapes of memory, time, and space using donated photos with mine.

Here is where we meet (2017)