The Invisible People

Jin Young Yu makes these totally unique, incredible full-size (though they look miniature in pictures) sculptures out of transparent PVC. They represent his concept of the “invisible people”: “It was too simple to define them as ‘the alienated people’ or ‘the depressed people.’ Instead, I thought that I, or we, could easily be one of them. My works are about people who…choose to keep a distance from [others], and be invisible, or left alone, unconcerned. Instead of trying to fit into the world, they climb into a space of their own and reject other people’s intrusions. [They] feign expressionless faces. They are holding their tears back and swallowing them, or they try to put on a cool face…”

A few other of his pieces that I love:
Rain girls
Mother and child

Tags: installation art, jin young yu, sculptures, urban alienation