Two of us
2023
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Measurements
- 152.0 × 122.0 cm
- Place/s of Execution
- Albany, California, United States
- Inscription
- inscribed in fibre-tipped pen on reverse l.r.: Two of us / 2023 / oil on linen / Gumimi You
- Accession Number
- 2023.243
- Department
- Contemporary Art
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased with funds donated by an anonymous donor, 2023
© Guimi You and Make Room Los Angeles - Gallery location
- Not on display
- About this work
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Korean artist Guimi You creates oil paintings that present a blurring of elements from the so-called real world connected with an imagined city. She draws inspiration from the natural world, explaining: ‘Nature is fluid and constantly evolving, so I don’t believe there is a need to portray them as static and immovable. As a result, this perception of nature has led me to develop a style of painting that may appear dream-like to the viewer’. Trained in traditional Korean portraiture, You combines this to create a kind of magical realism, where time and place are unplaceable. The couple standing on the bridge suggests an underlying narrative that, like her rendering of these figures, is hazy and open-ended.
