Vyolet Jin: OVERLOAD
2024/05/03 - 2024/05/14
Artists: Vyolet Jin
Curator: Nany Chen
“...You seem the same as always, and being you, hate every minute of it. Don’t! Learn to say “Fuck You” to the world once in a while…If you fear, make it work for you – draw & paint your fear and anxiety.” —— Sol LeWitt to Eva Hesse
In the first two years of Vyolet's career, the combination of low self-esteem, overthinking, and anxiety created a closed loop system, akin to a vortex in a constant, downward spiral. Vyolet Jin's solo exhibition OVERLOAD was created in this context.
Emotion has always been the basis of Vyolet's work; both positive and negative feelings are painted on the canvas with the same complex and gorgeous colors as fireworks. When viewing her work, it's easy to see the undertones of Lenovo's Henry Mattis's relaxed composition and color richness, KON's animations, which are demarcated by noisiness, crowdedness and whimsicalness, along with the retro-futuristic atmosphere of the millennium. Vyolet also utilizes these motifs in her visual and internal explorations, creating high-contrast, high-saturation colors, and free-form figures and objects, striking a noisy balance with her internal emotional state. Through these visual elements, the audience can create emotional resonance with her work. As an illustrator who graduated from the School of Visual Arts and now lives in New York, Vyolet’s work has been widely recognized in publications such as the New York Times and 4N Magazine. This exhibition visualizes Vyolet's internal self-image and merges it with the chaos of the external digital system. At its core, she symbolically represents emotions as folders in an“electronic file system“, with each folder representing an emotional state.
Through the three main walls, the audience can intuitively feel the visualization of emotions. They can use their eyes to interact with each wall to open and browse the different emotions of the “file”, thus creating an in-depth understanding of the artist's emotional world. From the scattered windows in the “Unconfident” folder, complete with figures hidden from the outside world, to the“Overthinking” folder full of information covering an entire field of view, with images of people inundated by pop-ups of repeated errors, and with the urgency of red dot notifications flooding into the “Anxious” folders, like a constant alerting system -- eventually, these emotions are packaged and thrown into the recycle bin.Vyolet showcases her unique visual talent of the extreme and opens up a new dialogue between artistic expression and the audience’s experience. In this interactive exhibit, the audience will be invited to make personal discoveries as they connect with their own unique experiences through the journey of empathy and emotional exploration found in Vyolet's visuals.
Curator: Nany Chen
“...You seem the same as always, and being you, hate every minute of it. Don’t! Learn to say “Fuck You” to the world once in a while…If you fear, make it work for you – draw & paint your fear and anxiety.” —— Sol LeWitt to Eva Hesse
In the first two years of Vyolet's career, the combination of low self-esteem, overthinking, and anxiety created a closed loop system, akin to a vortex in a constant, downward spiral. Vyolet Jin's solo exhibition OVERLOAD was created in this context.
Emotion has always been the basis of Vyolet's work; both positive and negative feelings are painted on the canvas with the same complex and gorgeous colors as fireworks. When viewing her work, it's easy to see the undertones of Lenovo's Henry Mattis's relaxed composition and color richness, KON's animations, which are demarcated by noisiness, crowdedness and whimsicalness, along with the retro-futuristic atmosphere of the millennium. Vyolet also utilizes these motifs in her visual and internal explorations, creating high-contrast, high-saturation colors, and free-form figures and objects, striking a noisy balance with her internal emotional state. Through these visual elements, the audience can create emotional resonance with her work. As an illustrator who graduated from the School of Visual Arts and now lives in New York, Vyolet’s work has been widely recognized in publications such as the New York Times and 4N Magazine. This exhibition visualizes Vyolet's internal self-image and merges it with the chaos of the external digital system. At its core, she symbolically represents emotions as folders in an“electronic file system“, with each folder representing an emotional state.
Through the three main walls, the audience can intuitively feel the visualization of emotions. They can use their eyes to interact with each wall to open and browse the different emotions of the “file”, thus creating an in-depth understanding of the artist's emotional world. From the scattered windows in the “Unconfident” folder, complete with figures hidden from the outside world, to the“Overthinking” folder full of information covering an entire field of view, with images of people inundated by pop-ups of repeated errors, and with the urgency of red dot notifications flooding into the “Anxious” folders, like a constant alerting system -- eventually, these emotions are packaged and thrown into the recycle bin.Vyolet showcases her unique visual talent of the extreme and opens up a new dialogue between artistic expression and the audience’s experience. In this interactive exhibit, the audience will be invited to make personal discoveries as they connect with their own unique experiences through the journey of empathy and emotional exploration found in Vyolet's visuals.
