Yant Jin
Projects
→ Broken Open
→ Peekaboo
Graphic Design
→ Bartlett Autumn Show_CVA → LFA_Bartlett
About
This is the perpetual game of hide and seek: between mother and child, between control and resistance, between what is hidden and what is revealed. It explores the subtle, lifelong performance required to be seen and yet remain concealed.
As a child, I lived under small rules that felt enormous. Television was forbidden. Each evening my mother placed her hand against the screen, testing its warmth, searching for evidence of my disobedience.
In secret, I imagined a tiny figure who would arrive just before she did, cooling the glass with a fan and erasing the trace of my desire. The figure never came. What arrived instead was the art of concealment. I learned to still my breath, to hide my impulses, to turn silence into shelter.
Peekaboo revisits that memory. It is not about television, but about intimacy and authority, about the fragile games we play with those we love. The work reanimates a childhood scene through digital art, turning memory into moving light.
This is the perpetual game of hide and seek: between mother and child, between control and resistance, between what is hidden and what is revealed. It explores the subtle, lifelong performance required to be seen and yet remain concealed.