Installation view of 《Flesh &
Flash》 ©The WilloWThe WilloW is presenting 《Flesh & Flash》,
a solo exhibition by artist Sang A Han, curated by Jihyung Park, on view
through July 31.
In this exhibition, the artist showcases a wide range of two-
and three-dimensional works that explore the meaning of the body as a
primordial state—one that refuses to return to an essentialist view of
femininity.
Sang A Han regards the human body as something synthetic yet
unfixed. Representational symbols that hint at the feminine are mostly erased
or reduced to mere fragments, gradually replaced by frameworks of non-human
entities. These forms appear on stage in unexpected hybrid mutations—stitched
together or fused at unforeseen joints.
Since the early stages of her practice, Han has been deeply
interested in the emergence of life and the experience of womanhood,
particularly through the lens of motherhood. Her earlier works weaved
emotional, psychological, and physical responses into amorphous, soft
sculptures. More recently, her focus has shifted toward a more fundamental,
primal state. Her new works depict a surreal landscape in which human and
non-human bodies originate in their respective worlds, yet are continuously
connected and separated in a dynamic cycle.
While her early works treated the female body as a backdrop for
personal narratives and events, the new entities in this exhibition speak not
through context but through their very modes of existence. In other words, the
artist begins to articulate how the body—misunderstood as familiar yet in truth
the most alien and distant—undergoes processes of collision and fusion to
become something reconstructed.
Sang A Han carefully follows the sensations awakened by these
grotesque and fantastical structures, gradually shaping and giving form to the
latent potential of femininity.
