Yoon Sungmin

An Online Exhibition

The Quiet Hours

The interior life of modern Korean youth — voids, masks, and quiet devotions.

Room I

The Hollow

A black hole bored through the body. Emptiness, painted plainly.

012023.02

Joined Hands

이어진 손

Paper-doll figures hold hands around the black hole in her belly — the shared labor of bearing what is empty.

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022023

Shell

껍질

A green shell over the face, a black hole through the torso. What is hidden, and what is left empty.

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032023

The Hammer

망치

Arms wrapped around the self; inside the dark hole, a single hammer — the impulse that turns inward.

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042023

The Heart That We Could Not Understand

우리가 이해할 수 없던 마음

A blue figure comes apart at every joint, a hole at its center. A heart taken to pieces.

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052023

The City Within

가슴속 도시

From the chest of a child with open arms, a black city grows — a skyline carried like a burden.

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062023

The End

종말

Lying among scattered pages and red camellias, the child looks, for the first time, at peace.

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Room II

Masks & Demons

An angel and a devil on the shoulders, black ink leaking from the mouth.

072023.04.03

All My Demons

나의 모든 악령들

An angel-cat and a devil-cat squabble overhead, a page of dense writing across the chest.

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082023.05.01

L'enfer Vous Appelle

지옥이 당신을 부른다

A red blade hidden behind the back, a sentence floating above. The moment the call is heard.

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092023

What Spills

쏟아지는 말

Blue eyes, flushed cheeks, black ink falling from the mouth like prison bars. Words held captive.

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102023

Perdre

잃다

Black tears fall as a city crumbles from the chest — loss, inscribed in French.

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112023

Lemons

레몬

In a black swirl, yellow lemons drift; a faint trace of blood at the nose. Sweetness and ache.

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122023.03.03

Fracture

Hands press against the head as a single crack runs down the face, silence ringed in Chinese characters.

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132023.05.01

Valentine: Re

발렌타인, 다시

A small child holds something red; a knife at the feet. A valentine, rewritten.

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Room III

Devotion

Praying hands and halos, a face rising from water. A quiet longing.

142023

Wish

소원

Before a ring of light, a child weeps with hands clasped — devotion drawn in graphite.

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152023.03.29

Choices

선택

A haloed figure sets a candle and a blue box at a red door. To knock, or to turn away.

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162023

Before the Red Door

붉은 문 앞에서

The same door, a deeper dark. A vigil kept by the light of one candle.

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172023

La Place

자리

Crowned with daisies, a face surfaces from blue water in the dark — a place to belong.

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182023.02.10

The Leaf

A blue-skinned child quietly offers up a green branch. Tenderness, held out.

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192023.05.30

La Lune

Round marks blooming across the skin amid green and blue brushwork — signs beneath the moon.

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202023

Quelle Misérable

가엾은

Curled around a tulip, a thought-cloud above: a child pitying itself.

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212023

Blue Room

푸른 방

A face built from pencil strokes gazes into a wide blue emptiness.

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222023

The Hand

A round face framed in black hair, one hand raised. Stillness, seen up close.

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232023

To a Heart That Outlasted a Season,

한 철을 넘긴 마음에게,

A face peering past the black edge — a greeting to whatever survived the season.

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Room IV

Small Comforts

Cats, small insects, a field of grass. Where the weight lifts, briefly.

242023

Cats

고양이들

A crowd of cats, every one waving. A page full of easy hellos.

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252023

Twenty-Four

24

A yellow cat in a black mask holds up a sign reading “24.” A playful little riddle.

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262023.10.04

Monday

월요일

A striped cat ambling across the grass. An ordinary Monday, nothing the matter.

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272023

Three Panels

세 칸

A short three-panel strip: cats, a child, and the quiet of an empty frame.

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282023

Antennae

더듬이

A child with antennae lies arms-wide on blue, snowing ground — rest, dreamlike.

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292023

Les Choses Qui Ne Changent Jamais

변하지 않는 것들

A worm, an apple, a figure with a hole, a leaf — four things that never change.

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