Selection
Cave and Forest, Cloud
Sohyun Ban2026.03.05 ~ 2026.05.29
Description of the work
- Media Acrylic on canvas, Oil on canvas
- Location 1F, The Lounge & Bar, LOTTE HOTEL WORLD
The series explores the sensory flow created through the materiality and physical act of painting. On a blank canvas, the artist repeatedly applies, pushes, and erases layers of paint, building thick, gestural surfaces that form an abstract field. Within these layered actions, cloud-like forms emerge unconsciously, serving as subtle cues within the composition. Rather than constructing a fixed narrative, the works follow the movement of chance and collision, allowing traces of emotion and thought to remain visible. Moving away from the symbolic narratives of embedded in the earlier paintings, the series shifts toward a more intuitive engagement with sensation and the material presence of painting.
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About the author
Sohyun Ban explores the moment when subtle emotional tremors are translated into painterly gestures. Her paintings emerge through intuitive and often impulsive acts driven by anxiety and instinct, leaving visible traces in the speed of the brush, the direction of movement, and the density of paint. From a distance, the compositions may appear lyrical and landscape-like, yet up close they dissolve into raw, colliding lines and restless marks that reveal the gap between perception and sensation.
For Ban, painting is not a means of resolving emotions but a process that confronts and records their trembling presence.
For Ban, painting is not a means of resolving emotions but a process that confronts and records their trembling presence.
Sohyun Ban (b. 1985, South Korea)
BA Painting, Seoul Digital University
