Bin Koh is an artist from Jeju, South Korea living and working in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
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The light of modernism was blinding. Even those who did not participate in it were penetrated by its rays and lost their sight.
I feel anger that the era I was born into hasn’t allowed enough time or space to grieve this loss, yet at times, I find myself giggling like a zombie, intoxicated by the afterimages of that light, squinting, trying to see more whilst less is illuminated.
This effort recalls my roots in Jeju—where the divine was female, diverse, not singular, not always right, not necessarily good—and how that worldview has been buried and forgotten.
Everything begins with drawing. Drawing captures an event, pulls it out of the flow of time. Trained by recurring prompts—bodies, myths, symbols—I extract and repeat images in a recursive loop, as much as posslble, as fast as possible, like a machine locked in its algorithm.
This process becomes a portal through which I can always encounter the version of myself who, as a child, could express my feeling and thoughts only through drawing.
CONTACT
Louwesweg 1, Studio 1.21
1066 EA, Amsterdam
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