Seoul-based artist Rahee Yoon creates boundary-transcending pieces with erratic yet straightforward visuals

Rahee Yoon is a Seoul-based designer and artist, creating works that are defined by the unique subtlety imbued in each of her pieces. After having majored in extensive crafts of metalwork, textile, ceramics and woodworking at Sookmyung’s Women University, she opened her own studio in 2017. Since then, she has presented a wide array of artworks and conducted many material experiments. In particular, Yoon has conducted experiments with acrylic for over 7 years as her primary material, having abandoned the conventionally perceived meaning of the noun acrylic. She prefers manifesting her works based on the adjective as modifier and verb as state of being, such as ‘to permeate deeply’, ‘subtly refract’ and ‘simply overlap’.

Essentially, Yoon’s pieces are an experiment with natures of various materials, from which she extracts raw essence and combines them with incidental effects to achieve irregular yet honest creations. Her boundary-transcending pieces express themselves in a simple and reticent manner through composed and intuitive forms. Working with enigmatic diffusion of colors in transparent blocks, these works generate a sense of waves billowing in serenity.

In her Block series, Yoon shows colourful acrylic embedded in translucent blocks, creating a vivid contrast with sharp contours of the block. The blurring core communicates ideas of boundaries, diffusion and empty spaces. The title Block not only indicates the base material of the artwork, but also represents how the series evolves from its simplest form into a multifaceted structure.

All of Yoon’s works and interpretations are created from her own hands, becoming highly aesthetic art objects through close collaborations with special engineers in Seoul and small workshops across Korea.