bio

Days in three big and very different metropolitan cities — Seoul, Jakarta, Amsterdam — have stimulated Hyunsuh's observation of the remnants that numerous transitory urban encounters leave behind. As momentary they are, their traces linger for unexpected durations in one's history, living spaces, psyche, sedimenting in the obscure depths of the unconscious. However, when one starts noticing the innumerable factors that shape a person, it would not be reductionist (on the contrary, it would be maximalist) to consider a person as solely constituting of experiences that their forebears and they themselves had and all those that will be because of them, and in so far as this person exerts their influence onto the world, the world too constitutes solely of their actions, the causes and the consequences of those actions. A person is their world.

For Hyunsuh, art then becomes the means to capture these permanent impacts within conscious appreciation. Ever since committing visual art in secondary school, Hyunsuh realized that none other than the stillness, or better put, the 'framedness' of an artwork makes explicit both the ever-moving and the irreversible characteristics of things. A brushstroke that freezes on the canvas partakes in a perpetual communication between objects, between people, between worlds.

Hyunsuh is a hoarder — of names, books, websites, smells, specimens, rocks, canvases. Taking the adage that "art is a way of life" to heart, she may be that someone who approaches you in the park to ask you what music you were listening to, or to take a picture of you and your dog. You might also find her serving a cup of tea brewed out of a whim of the seasons.

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