Minyoung Bae

Minyoung Bae pursues hyperrealist painting that appears more real than photography, using porcelain as a medium to explore contemporary society’s desires, consumption, and the illusions that underlie them. The numerous porcelain images arranged on her canvases are not mere decorative objects but metaphors for the inner contradictions of modern individuals—shining yet fragile, solid yet easily broken. The dual nature of porcelain, at once resilient and delicate, dazzling and hollow, reflects the constructed self that anxiously depends on the gaze of others.