The deep of night without city lights, there are flames in white flash covering the sky. It is 'The Flame that Night #1'(2012). An image on a small scene is beautiful like shooting star, but actually this dark hides an ominous moment waiting for the war. Her works are inspired by man-made disaster, like war, or accident, or natural disaster, such as earth quake, tsunami, or flood and use them as a subject.
All images are referential or simulacra as a necessity. However, images in her painting deny or have both of attributes. On one hand, it reveals an illusion and amplifies variety of feelings with honesty at the same time.
As the first step, she collects many accidents through news paper or internet, and classify them. The images from them are a moment before and after an accident occurs, or a terrible moment. Among these images, the artist picks and recreates some of them without any information. Thus, command for the specific accident is disappeared and loses narratives, but people can focus on a feeling the image arouses purely. This feeling brings up antinomic moment.
Andy Warhol expressed contradict feelings in front of disaster as 'If keep seeing terrible paintings repeatedly, it cannot take any effect.' Warhol shows consume way of image included in an era of media through disaster on Saturday, while Yu Jeong Min's work is a view about indiscriminate flood of information through internet.