Close your eyes, penetrate the darkness, the vastness of the infinite and matrix-like space where gravity distorts time and space, and where light reserves the right to awaken the void, to engender it, and to transform silence into “Rhapsody in Hypostasis”.
Is Creation punctual, constant, recurrent? Does it possess consciousness with the ambition to conquer and perpetuate itself? Does it have an objective?
The unconscious memory of Yang Soonyeal has engraved in her the story of the beginning of Creation, this cosmic consciousness imprinted in the particles that inhabit us and are part of a whole.
Hypostasis is an underlying substance that supports the whole, and in the case of Soonyeal’s work, it is the link between each of the themes revealed in her imagination and in one of her central works, “Mother Ottogi.”
A sculpture taking on all dimensions, representing a human form, with rounded contours in three steps forming a triangle and offering a geometric figure in its spiritual intention. Its base supports the whole, curved to trigger the pendulum and the movement of gravitational fields that contort time and space.
“Mother Ottogi” is the demonstration of unity that unfolds into two opposites like Yin and Yang, Man, Woman. Maternity for Soonyeal, in the intrinsic sense of the connection with the past conversing with the future and educating the present between the material and the spiritual, has no feminine or masculine definition but as the central point of her artistic concept, it is the gestation to which humanity lends itself.
Erwin Schrödinger, in writing “What is Life?,” suggested that in cells, there could be atomic structures that organize themselves to reproduce. We have an incessant search for the other. The feeling of loneliness shows that we have been designed to function in a network, and we are pieces of a puzzle that only make sense when connected.
Yang Soonyeal has detected this perception of the continuation of Life given to each individual, a regenerative continuation she calls “Maternity,” and she has adopted and materialized it in “Mother Ottogi,” wishing to awaken a universal consciousness. One characteristic of inert matter is its ability to compartimentalize. It organizes itself to create differentiation. When water and oil are mixed, they separate, demonstrating that inert matter has the ability to self-organize. It seems to result from the automatic mechanisms of replicative chemistry. The laws of chemistry and physics being the same throughout the universe, the “Mother Ottogi” exhibits the consciousness of rhythm that allows giving life to matter and creative thought.
“Mother Ottogi,” like “Homo Sapiens,” manifests through multiplication, a representation of an ideal being that has reached the absolute perfection of this tiny and undefined space between matter and spirit.
OTTOGI - Courtesy of the artist