Minjeong An creates drawings that resemble blueprints or technical diagrams. Using computer illustration programs, she inputs images and prints them onto tracing paper. At first glance, her works appear to be charts or diagrams filled with mathematical formulas and annotations, evoking the aesthetic of software manuals.
However, on closer inspection, these scientific and technical elements reveal profoundly personal content—intimate moments from everyday life, memories, emotions, and aspects of her identity. Her practice juxtaposes subjective experience with the objectivity suggested by scientific precision, borrowing the visual language of technology and calculation—akin to a modern-day religion—to express herself and her surroundings.
The works presented here are studies of the invisible forces of love that bind living beings together and are not easily accounted for by materialist and capitalist understandings of the world. In Six-Membered Family Portrait, for instance, the artist explains that the halo around the mother’s head represents her “warm energy and aura” and the “light of love” in which her family basks.
Minjeong An, TThe Study on Mother’s Hand and Wind of Healing; Manual on Mother’s Hand, 2013/2025. digital prints. 210 × 111.8 cm; 29.7 × 42 cm (manual).Reproduction supported by The 13th Seoul Mediacity Biennale. Courtesy of the artist
