Berlin Fellowship 2024 — Visual Arts

Hana Yoo

*1987 in Busan (KOR)

Lives in Berlin (DE)

Web yoohana.net

Instagram @hanayoo.oooo

Vita

Hana Yoo is interested in exploring collective anxiety and transcendental experiences stemming from extreme polarisation and Othering. In her multimedia installations and films, Yoo examines and subverts socio-political (dys)topia through a real-life, parodic form of storytelling. Yoo studied art and media at the Berlin University of Arts, and her works have been shown internationally at museums and festivals, including the Fotomuseum (Winterthur, Switzerland), European Media Art Festival (EMAF, Germany), and Busan International Video Art Festival (Busan, Korea). She was awarded the Berlin Art Prize in 2022.︎

Residency

My research begins by seeking the point where extreme comfort reflects anxiety, where something is so funny that it becomes sad, where hyperreality becomes a fantasy, and where extreme freedom reveals restriction. Here, at this tipping point where perspective is reversed, I imagine a transcendental experience that arises only when a part of one’s existence is destroyed. During my residency, I will continue my research on the socio-political context of polarisation and in-betweenness, as well as the resulting collective psychological state mediated by the technological apparatus. I ultimately plan to create a video installation depicting a surreal realm of “contemporary limbo”.