Artist Yoon Hyungtaek (b.1985) depicts a warm and peaceful sense of trust within his canvas that moves aside rather than confronts. That moment of being together as if the time of two people overlaps while sitting beside one another without any other purpose is looked on with fascination.
We grow fond of each other when we have a consistent affection for someone over a long period of time. Somewhere in between, there is ‘Fondness’ that is more mature than ‘likeness’ but more cheerful than ‘love’. If you remove the impulse, addiction and intensity from the word love, you get ‘Fondness’. For the artist, looking at each other face to face means love, and looking from the side means likeness which is the reason why the artist likes to draw side profiles. In other words, the artist prefers likeness rather than love.
A problem arises at this point because the meaning th e artist intends to express through his work is neither l ove nor likeness. The likeness that the artist wants to express through his works can be defined as an emotion that doesn’t have the impulse, addiction, and intensity of love, and which overlaps the affection over and over again. The artist prefers a warm and comfortable feeling of trust that puts each other by its side rather than facing each other. It is so much more interesting when we sit and spend time together without any purpose. The characters appearing in the artworks can be interpreted not only as lovers, but also as family members, friends, or themselves.