Jordan Yi

Jordan Yi (2001) is a Korean-born artist specializing in drawing and painting. Heavily influenced by Western art history, children’s illustration, and cross-cultural symbolism, her work reframes human dilemmas through fantastical narratives. Themes of childhood and tension are at the core of her practice, captured by her signature juxtaposition of animal subjects in ominous scenarios. The result is an intimate and unsettling fusion of the whimsical and the macabre.

The pieces featured in ARACHNIDAE are allegorical realizations of a selection of vulnerable experiences. Linked by distinct sensations of dread, ambivalence, and the inexorable, each painting is a peek into a dreamscape of which the audience is merely a witness. The rabbit (or the hare) is the heart of the collection, serving as a loose rendition of self-portrait.

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