두 개의 반쪽짜리 고향

I grew up moving between China and Korea. Conditions that define me — such as nationality, language, and even my birthday — have always made my identity unstable. This experience, which cannot be reduced to a single answer, has become the fundamental question that drives my work. I explore the uncertainty and fractures arising from a borderland identity, and attempt to extend them to a social dimension. Instead of concealing or mending my instability, I reveal and record it, seeking new relationships and meanings through the process.

오예지 Yeji Oh 吴礼智
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<두 개의 반쪽짜리 고향> Two Half Hometowns, 판넬에 혼합재료, 162.2x112,1cm, 2023
Mixed media on panel

This is a mixed-media painting that layers multiple strata of time around the central object of a mother's diary from the year 2000. Within the diary coexist traces of repeated handwriting practice of the phrase "have a mother," diary entries recording the moment of my birth, and childhood scribbles layered over them. Two nations, two languages, and two generations of time overlap, accumulating on the canvas a sensation of floating between — belonging fully to neither side.