Ouhi Cha | Strata of Being, An Existential Odyssey

2026ๅนด3ๆœˆ17ๆ—ฅ

Ouhi Cha

 

A nomadic life between Korea and Berlin has been the foundation of Ouhi Cha's practice, through which the wounds of history and the existential condition of being are sublimated into a singular aesthetic of material incarnation. Her trajectory extends beyond personal introspection into an odyssey that encompasses the universal tragedies and hopes of humankind. —Excerpt from Seong-rok Suh, ๐˜š๐˜ต๐˜ณ๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ข ๐˜ฐ๐˜ง ๐˜‰๐˜ฆ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ, ๐˜ˆ๐˜ฏ ๐˜Œ๐˜น๐˜ช๐˜ด๐˜ต๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ข๐˜ญ ๐˜–๐˜ฅ๐˜บ๐˜ด๐˜ด๐˜ฆ๐˜บ

์ฐจ์šฐํฌ ์ž‘๊ฐ€๋Š” ํ•œ๊ตญ๊ณผ ๋ฒ ๋ฅผ๋ฆฐ์„ ์˜ค๊ฐ€๋Š” ๋…ธ๋งˆ๋“œ์  ์‚ถ์„ ๋ฐ”ํƒ•์œผ๋กœ, ์—ญ์‚ฌ์˜ ์ƒ์ฒ˜์™€ ์ธ๊ฐ„์˜ ์‹ค์กด์  ์ƒํ™ฉ์„ ‘๋ฌผ์งˆ์˜ ์œกํ™”(่‚‰ๅŒ–)’๋ผ๋Š” ๋…์ฐฝ์ ์ธ ๋ฏธํ•™์œผ๋กœ ์Šนํ™”์‹œ์ผœ ์™”๋‹ค. ์ฐจ์šฐํฌ์˜ ํ™œ๋™ ๊ถค์ ์€ ๊ฐœ์ธ์˜ ๋‚ด๋ฉด์  ์„ฑ์ฐฐ์„ ๋„˜์–ด ์ธ๋ฅ˜ ๋ณดํŽธ์˜ ๋น„๊ทน๊ณผ ํฌ๋ง์„ ์•„์šฐ๋ฅด๋Š” ‘์˜ค๋”ง์„ธ์ด’์˜ ์—ฌ์ •์ด๋‹ค. -์„œ์„ฑ๋ก ๋ฏธ์ˆ  ํ‰๋ก ๊ฐ€, ”์กด์žฌ์˜ ์ง€์ธต, ์‹ค์กด์  ์˜ค๋”ง์„ธ์ด“์—์„œ ๋ฐœ์ทŒ

 



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Courtesy of the artist & Johyun Gallery