HYUN NAHM
Hyun Nahm’s works resurrects sculptural tradition to liberate the landscape in labor-intensive processes of construction. On the surface, Hyun Nahm’s work is reminiscent of the miniascape, a scaled-down, concentrated sample of the landscape. By conventional bounds, the landscape is horizontal and bodiless; Hyun uses industrial material such as latex, epoxy and polystyrene to revisit space and form.
Reactions between the variegated matter cause them to melt into one another, overheating and entangling, breaking, opening, and swelling to be reformed as vertical, casted sculpture. This breaking of direction and reemergence into presence calls to attention the empty space surrounding it, and the holes, gaps, and voids that appear through an unpredictable process of discovery.
Hyun Nahm studied Painting at Hongik University and received his MFA in Fine Arts from Seoul National University of Science and Technology. He has held solo exhibitions Burrowing at the Bottom of a Rainbow, ATELIER HERMÈS, Seoul (2021); My early adulthood pilgrimage is wrong, as I expected, instant roof, Seoul (2021); Miniascape Theory, Art Space HYEONG / Shift (2020). Group exhibitions include Gallery Kiche (2021), Dorok (2020), Audio Visual Pavilion (2018), archive bomm (2017), and Space Willing N Dealing (2015) in Seoul.
Text courtesy P21.
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