핑크문 76 min., 2025 South Korea
Korean, Czech and English subtitles Director: Yoon Han-seok Guest: Yoon Han-seok, Hwang Yiseul Distributor: Yoon Han-seok
Screening introduced by director Yoon Han-seok and producer/editor Hwang Yiseul, followed by a Q&A in English.
Yun Suk-nam, a mother and a wife, broke away from traditional family roles when she turned 40 and, despite having no formal artistic education, chose to pursue painting. In the 1990s, she won the prestigious Lee Jung-seop Art Award and is now considered one of the leading figures of the South Korean art scene. Her artworks have been exhibited around the world. Although she was drawn to art from a young age, post-war Korea was not particularly supportive of female artists. An act of creation was, in a way, regarded as an act of defiance. Today, almost 90 years old, Yun Suk-nam continues to defy the male-dominated world of (not only) Korean art and open doors for dozens of other women artists. In Pink Moon, director and cinematographer Yoon Han-seok narrates her story by combining interviews, archival footage and intimate observational scenes capturing the artist at work.
The documentary is as diverse as Yun Suk-nam’s artistic range, which includes countless art forms, such as painting, woodwork, and large-scale installations. Rather than mythologizing the artist, Yoon Han-seok engages in a dialogue with Yun Suk-nam. A dialogue that at the same time reconstructs the history of feminist art in South Korea and shows how even a portrait of one’s own mother can change the way society views women.
