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Yoon Dae-ra's solo exhibition "2025 Dae-ra Show" ... Through amulets and play, art of healing and hope


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Writer Yoon Dae-ra will hold a solo exhibition titled "2025 Dae-ra Show - Amulet of Healing and Hope, Energy of Play" at 'plan C' in Jeonju Hanok Village from August 22 to 30 (located at 30 Eunhaeng-ro, next to the Donghak Revolution Memorial Hall). The exhibition will be open for viewing from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. for everyone.

In this exhibition, Yoon Dae-ra expands the ritualistic nature of traditional amulets on stage through her representative works "Bikini Soda" and the companion cat character "Yang Saengwon." The carefree "Bikini Soda" and lovely "Yang Saengwon" fill the space with lively movements, while the amulets reveal a dual nature as sacred symbols containing anxiety and wishes, as well as tools for daily life. The artist uses this contradictory duality as an artistic device, allowing viewers to confront a scene where the sacred and the mundane, authority and play intersect.

Yoon Dae-ra has emphasized audience participation and experience through her works that combine daily life, memories, play, and wishes. In the exhibition "Bikini Soda: The Final Weapon" held at the Hyeonggyo-gil 68 Art Museum in Jeonju in 2024, she actively utilized pop sensibility and humor. Her exhibition "Yang Saengwon and Bikini Soda" at the Samrye Cultural Arts Village in Wanju in early 2025 received acclaim for creating an immersive space on the theme of coexistence and love. This "Dae-ra Show" continues this trend while directly addressing the anxieties and hopes of modern society through the traditional symbol of amulets.

In particular, this exhibition conveys the message that "hope is the language of healing." For viewers living in the uncertainties, competitions, and exhaustion of 2025, the amulets serve not merely as tools of simple sorcery but as psychological mediators comforting the mind and devices of hope reconfigured as play. Through this, the artist suggests the artistic potential to momentarily relieve anxieties and lighten the weight of life.

"2025 Dae-ra Show" unfolds as a unique stage where mystical rituals, contemporary art, and B-grade sensibility mix, creating a space for healing and communication where earnest wishes and playful liberation intersect. Viewers, experiencing the process of amulets transitioning from authoritative symbols to play and humor within the performance, will find relief from anxieties and embrace a small spark of courage and hope for tomorrow.

This exhibition holds significant meaning as an attempt to interpret messages of healing and hope that contemporary individuals need through artistic language, going beyond a simple visual art exhibition. Yoon Dae-ra's "2025 Dae-ra Show" is expected to establish itself as a cultural event that questions why healing and hope are so urgent for modern people, going beyond a mere exhibition.

This exhibition, held at 'plan C' in Jeonju Hanok Village, will become a stage that.gif'>ts viewers with experiences of hope and healing to live tomorrow. It is hoped that the steps taken to visit the exhibition space will lead to a journey of reflecting on life beyond mere observation.