What can be eternal? Yeil Joo poses this question to herself and the recipients of her works by addressing consumer culture and its transience in modern society. She uses sugar as a material because of its ambivalent meaning: sugar melts and thus testifies to the process of change. Sugar sweetens life and harms us at the same time.
Bitcoins made of sugar embody the “sweet” dream of quick wealth. But how realistic is this dream really? How real can a currency be that has no material equivalent? Bitcoin sells this fiction of quick wealth, which has nothing to do with reality.
– Herbert Gerisch Foundation, Neumünster, Germany – Foyer of the City Gallery, Kiel, Germany
2023:
– Industrial Museum Metal Foundry, Kiel, Germany – AR exhibition, Kiel, Germany – artitFICTION, Brunswiker Pavilion, Kiel, Germany
Biography
Yeil Joo completed her Bachelor’s degree in Visual Communication Design at Kyonggi University in Suwon, South Korea, between 2006 and 2011. Since 2021 she has been studying at the Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts in Kiel.
