오하은
Haeun Oh
Solo Exhibitions
2022 LASA
2024 Humor Sense
2024 You Desire Me, I Erase Myself - Seobo Park Foundation 26SQM
Group Exhibitions
2024 Body Garden - Gyeonggi Cultural Foundation Space Aesthetics
2024 Laheen Gallery
2023 Atmosphere = Crisis - Space Mirage
2023 The So-So Art Community: Boogie Woogie Art Museum - Ulsan Art Museum
2023 Alternative Archive
2017 Butterfly Hunting - Nonbat Gallery
2017 Space Union
Education
2022 Master’s in Fine Arts, Ewha Womans University
2018 Bachelor’s in Fine Art Painting, Ewha Womans University
Back then, I had regular hearing tests. Each time, through the headphones, words like ‘ocean,’ ‘sky,’ and ‘autumn’—all two syllables in Korean—floated through. I once imagined a future where I wouldn’t hear that you’d say ‘ocean’ to me. I wouldn’t be able to picture anything, only gazing into your eyes, wondering what you’d think of me in that moment. From then on, I began to imagine that all the sounds in my world would be filled by the sight of you. Visual fragments of words, each carrying their own beauty, stitched together in my mind like found footage. Memory and imagination blurred into one, softening the boundaries of reality, inviting an endless, timeless feeling.
When I returned home after leaving the hospital, my familiar world had been changed by a pandemic. Face-to-face moments were replaced by fragmented video clips on screens—found footage once again. Each day carried its own uncertainty. In that fragile world, the only things I could rely on were the warmth and weight of the person beside me. Anchored in that physical sensation, scenes of memory and imagination drifted through my mind, creating images that felt both faded and vivid. I translated these into canvases, using analog textures to bring my own ‘found footage’ into physical space.
My work, like the two-syllable words from my hearing tests, is arbitrary yet filled with potential and possibility. Each piece captures a recurring emotion, much like the passing of seasons, and I name each work after one of the 24 solar terms, with the goal of completing all 24. When two or more pieces are displayed together, I add the sun’s angle instead of the season’s name in the caption. This fragmented display entangles the work with the space, keeping each piece as a medium for imagining new possibilities beyond mere symbols.