950km — xhdpwl.com

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
xhdpwl@naver.com

950km, 판넬에 혼합재료, 162.2x336.3cm, 2024
Mixed media on panel

I reproduced scribbles collected from Tianjin and Seoul and transformed them into abstract paintings by attaching byproducts of memory. While these scribbles remain like the city's body, they are also fragile traces that can vanish at any moment for 'marring the urban aesthetics.' By restoring them through a formal language, I reveal a sensibility toward the things that are erased and left behind within the city.