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EchoesəvYourFace

It is like a rush of feelings rising from within, like thousands of petals drifting without destination, tangled, spiraling, pulling each other close It is as if every portion of memory is coming to you, making you feel chaotic, longing for them, then letting them drift away, forlornly. (...)

Innerscape

A series of imagined emotional landscapes, each accompanied by its own soundtrack played on the Gayageum, circling around the question of what is Each painting reflects the feeling of standing between two worlds, absorbing the overwhelming influence of a new environment while feeling a growing distance from the home country. (...)

The Misty Heaven

Floating objects are expressed using dark or vivid colours, dynamic brushstrokes, creating a sense of motion. In contrast, brighter, tranquil colours create a misty, balanced impression. (...)

Dance (Hani-mation)

What started as improvised motion in her Berlin studio grew into a quiet refusal of fixed identity, of social structure, of the expectations gathered around her. The work is a declaration made on impulse, a rite in which she lets herself go by way of rhythm, memory, and feeling. (...)

Chopin

The creative process of this series involves immersing herself in Frédéric Chopin's music, translating its melodies into deeply personal visual expressions. She allows herself to be fully enveloped by the profound sensations the music stirs within her. (...)

Connection

Some are formed through genuine bonds, while others arise from a sense of obligation, often blurring the lines between what is freely chosen and what is maintained out of necessity. These connections can be both beautiful and, at times, burdensome. (...)

Ongoing Project진행 중 프로젝트Progetto in corso

AfterThoughts

After Liberty

Questions like 'What is life, and how should one live it?', 'What kind of being am I, with what thoughts and struggles?', and 'How should I view the world around me?' have come to feel closer than ever. (...) John Stuart Mill's On Liberty, which I began reading last December, deepened questions that had been vaguely surfacing in my mind, provoking a fierce inner reaction. The emotional stirrings brought on by its passages passionately pushed me toward abstract visualization and musical composition. (...)

The whole strength and value, then, of human judgment, depending on the one property, that it can be set right when it is wrong, reliance can be placed on it only when the means of setting it right are kept constantly at hand. In the case of any person whose judgment is really deserving of confidence, how has it become so? Because he has kept his mind open to criticism of his opinions and conduct. Because it has been his practice to listen to all that could be said against him; to profit by as much of it as was just, and expound to himself, and upon occasion to others, the fallacy of what was fallacious. (...)

— John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, 1859

Dance (Hani-mation)

The series ''Dance (Hani-mation)' is a portrait of the artist made through movement, holding her emotion as it came, before shaping. What started as improvised motion in her Berlin studio grew into a quiet refusal of fixed identity, of social structure, of the expectations gathered around her. The work is a declaration made on impulse, a rite in which she lets herself go by way of rhythm, memory, and feeling.

Collage I of 9 'Dance'
80 x 57 cm
Oil and Acrylic on paper
2024

Working with a camera she triggered by remote, she gathered more than 400 frames while moving freely to music. The method placed her outside anyone else's looking and kept her inside the moment, so that what mattered was not her appearance but her sensation. With makeup, costume, and outward performance set aside, she wanted an honest presence to surface, that of a woman, a Korean, an artist making her way through the difficulty of life in another country. It is the record of a body shaken loose so that a soul could be held.

Video Installation of Dance (Hani-mation)
Animation created from original paintings using AI tools
2025

Nudity here is not borrowed from the Western vocabulary of freedom. It is exposure that asks for total emotional openness, and it is a direct meeting with the awkwardness and fragility that being unclothed brings. For an artist raised in Korea, where nudity rarely serves as a means of self expression, the choice carries a weight of its own.

Collage II of 9 'Dance'
80 x 57 cm
Oil and Acrylic on paper
2024

The work holds Berlin's freedom and creative charge together with the grey beneath it, the loneliness, the hours of alienation. Dance is at once how she shows herself and how she draws the emotional shape of the city. Berlin is a place where freedom, solitude, fragility, and the feeling of having no bearings all arrive together. To live in another country is to translate yourself without end. As the woman she used to be thins into distance, 〈Dance (Hani-mation)〉 reaches for her, a hand extended slowly to remember her and to find her again.

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