My practice originates from emotions that continuously emerge and dissolve—dispersing, permeating, drifting, and remaining in constant motion. These affective states oscillate between immaterial evaporation and an oppressive sense of corporeality, at times devoid of substance and at others carrying a tangible weight. By perceiving, imagining, and reconfiguring these contradictions, I continuously question my own position. It is within this tension that I move through lived experience, advancing through gradual transformation rather than rupture.
The notion of transformation lies at the core of my practice. At the threshold where reality distorts into the unreal, latent yet violent emotional forces emerge—invisible, yet undeniably present. The forms that arise from this state are often hybrid, fragmented, wounded, or deliberately unfinished. They function as speculative figures that question the limits of the human, revealing the erosion of humanist assumptions while opening the possibility of rethinking the human condition.
My visual language draws from invisible internal structures—veins, skeletal architectures, and cellular systems—the intimate organizations that sustain life beneath its surface. These structures become vehicles for reflecting on existence, where the body ceases to be a fixed form and instead becomes a site of transformation, tension, and vulnerability. As a result, my pictorial space remains suspended between the real and the unreal, carrying within it the fragility, impermanence, and incompleteness that permeate human existence.
My works do not seek to be understood through a linear narrative or an external explanation. Rather, they exist as autonomous residues of affect, sustained by the internal logic of the image itself. Each painting operates simultaneously as a pressure emerging from within and as the trace of an oscillation—between immersion and eruption, restraint and excess. Within this space of continuous transformation, painting becomes less a representation of the world than a site where the possible forms of the human are continuously reimagined.
TAEHO CHOI