by Yoon Ami

Artwork Description

The Minimum Spring

240.0 x 150.0 cm

The Minimum Spring: A Dirge for the Child explores the unseen psychological and physical violence that unfolds within the family—violence often concealed beneath the language of care. Building upon my long-term project Stories of Loss (2005–), the work examines how loss shapes our inner world not as a single event but as a structural condition of life. Through photography, staged scenes, and installation, I investigate how fragile states of fear, silence, and fragmented memory manifest within the body and space. The work reflects on child abuse cases in which protection collapses into harm. By transforming these incidents into symbolic visual forms, I seek to expose the hidden architectures of violence that permeate domestic life. Memory, understood as both personal history and collective responsibility, becomes a central axis: what begins as a private wound must eventually be brought into the realm of shared accountability. The work ultimately asks how we confront the violence that takes place where love is presumed to exist, and how we might reimagine protection beyond the boundaries of the family

Artwork Details

Medium: Photography

Genre: Portrait