You-Jin Chang
The image that appears is like a song you don’t fully understand, yet it still moves you – without much explanation, simply there to awaken wonder.
The sky is in constant transition: colours emerge, fade, overlap. Light shifts contrasts, dissolves contours, or makes them visible. I am drawn to this state between presence and disappearance – to what slips away again in the very next moment. I try to let this process show itself on canvas. Some hues are shaped by memory, others by careful reconstruction from photographs. The deliberate slowing down of this work stands against the quick changes of light – and within this quiet tension lies much of what I seek.
Colours are never fixed. They come into being through light, through scattering and reflection. A shade that seemed clear yesterday may appear completely different today. How can one hold on to something that is constantly renewing itself?
„Light Instead“, 2025, oil on canvas (50x40cm)
