Price
₩1,500,000
Art protects art
8 out of 10
artists are shut out by banks
Until the next exhibition, the next performance. For artists, income gaps are an unavoidable reality. For fellow artists forced into predatory loans just to afford paint, canvas, and studio rent, proceeds from this artwork become the Seed Fund — extending a fair hand at fair rates.
Voices of fellow artists
“The memory of going hungry for three days, alone, so my children wouldn't know.”
— 50s, theater artist
168 artworks sold, each becoming a seed of solidarity
One artwork becomes the oxygen that keeps a fellow artist creating.
Sales proceeds go to the artist mutual-aid fund.
Authentic City
An Sohyeon
- Category
- Photography
- Material
- Pigment print What's a pigment print? →
- Size
- 80×60cm · Size 25 · Medium How big is this? →
- Year
- 2023
- Edition
- Edition 1/10 What's an edition? →
- Price
- ₩1,500,000
- Availability
- For sale
About the Artist
Ahn Sohyun is an actress and visual artist who reconstructs urban landscapes with a painterly sensibility. Working primarily with the medium of photography, she captures scenes and expresses the emotional density between reality and fiction through dreamlike colors and perceptual gaps. Her work begins from the act of drifting through the city like swimming, allowing fleeting moments to linger in the senses and expanding them into new perspectives toward the future. After graduating from Sangmyung University's Department of Photography, Film, and Media, she has been building her own visual language since her first solo exhibition in 2017, presenting urban images where painterly qualities and emotional rhythms intersect in exhibitions such as CITY OASIS and Authentic City. She was selected for the Ewha Art Cube, Porsche Dreamers On Artists, and the Seoul Battleship exhibition, and directed and starred in the art film LUNATIC, which received awards and invitations at independent film festivals in New York, Paris, Moscow, and elsewhere. In 2023, she published the book Only Love Is the Answer: The Birth of Sens, encompassing text, images, and performance, expanding her multilayered explorations of identity and sensation. Recently, she has been extending her activities as a planner and curator, creating scenes across exhibitions and screens, ensuring that art serves as a sensory conduit connecting the future and the present in changing environments. Her work is always grounded in 'boundaries,' recording the gaps between image and language, everyday life and art, emotion and structure.
Artist Statement
NEW REMINISCENCE
Sometimes I find myself feeling the lyrics of a song even when it isn't in my own language. For me it was Shunza's 順子 【寫一首歌 APRIL 5 1969】. Through her crystalline voice and its resonance, the Chinese language sang of a love deep within, as if reminiscing about something. In photographs, too, there is a language. I have made work that resembles a song — interpreting and voicing the language inside time and space I have, by chance, preserved. I drew out and translated the language inside photographs that spoke to me, or that I spoke to. With an unburdened gaze, I sought out landscapes through which I could hear melody, and I faced them. Among the works in this exhibition, Hokney 02, set against a swimming pool, directly homages David Hockney's work, which I listened to often around the time of my 2018 solo exhibition CITY OASIS. That moment was an important opening to a new work, opened up by the influence of a viewer. New languages of new reminiscences, generating yet another new reminiscence. Photographed just before COVID-19, the works in this exhibition were made more lavishly — perhaps even idealized — using vivid memory as motif. The places one could once reach without restriction now feel, behind invisible walls, like a single dreamlike haze; this became the central perspective I sought to visualize. Each instant becomes an act of survival; we are experiencing birth and death, an extreme balance. The everyday that seemed infinite turned out to be deeply finite. The present I have built, fashioned by an unaccountable longing, may be the defense mechanism of the human animal — the very thing that woke these works.
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- One of only 10 limited prints
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- the pride of standing with a peer
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- a new ₩3,000,000 path of low-interest support
354 artists have walked this path of recovery; 95% returned to open it for the next.