Ongoing Project진행 중 프로젝트Progetto in corso
AfterThoughts
Questions like 'What is life and how should I live it?', 'Who am I at my core, with all my thoughts and concerns?' and 'How should I look at the world where I am standing?' have become more prominent in my mind. I want to find meaning because more often I feel uncertain about how to approach my life. (...)
After Liberty
Last December, I picked up John Stuart Mill's 『On Liberty』, and it made more vivid the vague questions in my head. Even though it was published back in 1859, everything he wrote about individuality, freedom, the need for diverse environments, individual development, and the dangers of the tyranny of the majority caused a shift inside me. (...)
"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. (...)"
—『On Liberty』(1859) by John Stuart Mill
Dance (Hani-mation)
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 completely by way of rhythm, memory, and feeling.
Collage I of 9 'Dance'
80 x 57 cm
Oil and Acrylic on paper
2024
In front of a camera triggered by remote, she captures moments of moving freely, mostly to melancholic songs with a few upbeat ones mixed in, gathering more than 400 photographs. The method places her outside anyone else's looking and kept her fully inside the moment, so that what matters is not her appearance but what she feels. With makeup, costume, and outward performance set aside, she wants an honest presence to surface, that of a woman, a Korean, an artist, making her way through the complexity of life in another country. It is, essentially, an act of shaking the body back and forth in order to hold tightly onto a soul.
Video Installation of Dance (Hani-mation)
Animation created from original paintings using AI tools
2025
Choosing nudity here is not simply about symbolizing freedom in a Western context. It is an act of exposure that allows emotion to be revealed completely, and is a direct meeting with the awkwardness and fragility that being unclothed brings. This is especially true for an artist raised in Korea, where nudity is not widely regarded as a common means of self-expression, and so the choice carries an even more distinctive meaning.
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 landscape beneath it, the loneliness, the moments of alienation. Here, dance is at once how she shows herself and a language through which she expresses the emotional terrain of the city. Berlin is a place where freedom, solitude, fragility, and a sense of helplessness all arrive together. To live in another country is to translate yourself without end. As the woman she used to be grows faint with time, 'Dance (Hani-mation)' reaches for her, a hand extended quietly to remember her and to find her again.