Yoon Il Kown

Il Kwon is a London based artist originally from South Korea. I first met him at the Work in Progress show at the Royal College of Art.
The body of work titled Memories, was most recently shown at the London Art Fair. The work is about the transient nature of memories, and he uses materials that we consider disposable to represent this in a visual way.

On the large stack of brown serviettes,he has printed faces of his primary school classmates. And where he no longer recalls a classmate, the paper napkins are turned into paper mache pieces that represent the forgotten.

He says of his work “‘Memory’ focuses on the characteristics of things that comprise of layers. It shows the forgotten memories from our lives on pieces of tissue paper, and thereby reminds us of those memories. Napkins, also made up of layers, are also forgotten everyday objects as they are quickly consumed in our daily lives. After printing images of my forgotten memories on the side of a pile of napkins, I used the printed napkins to show people the process of forgetting.“

Follow him on Instagram @ilkwon.yoon

Website http://yoonilkwon.com/