Bin Koh is an artist from Jeju, South Korea living and working in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
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The self is an illusion. Reality is relational and entangled, ever changing. The body is not an object in itself, it is an event within the entangled flow. Capturing these events is my artistic practice.
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.
Everything begins with drawing. Drawing captures events, taking them out of the flow of time and in turn re-entering it in a new form.
My retina has been trained upon some prompts. I extract images of events and traces this way. I draw as much as possible, then feed them back through my retina in a recursive cycle. I extract, modify, produce, repeat. Through these cycles, observation turns into meaning.
This act helps me to rediscover and reinterpret memories that are not necessarily bound to a specific nation, culture, or history, but span across different realities and moments. A flood of images and meanings.
CONTACT
Louwesweg 1, Studio 1.21
1066 EA, Amsterdam
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