Price
₩600,000
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
167 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
- 50×40cm · Size 10 · Small How big is this? →
- Year
- 2023
- Edition
- Edition 2/10 What's an edition? →
- Price
- ₩600,000
- 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
There are times when I feel the lyrics of a song even though it is not in my own language. For me, that song was Shunza's 順子 【寫一首歌 APRIL 5 1969】. Together with the resonance spreading from her clear voice, the Chinese language coming through was singing of a love from the depths, as though recalling something. In the same way, there is a language inside a photograph, too. I have made work like a song, interpreting and bringing out the language within the time-and-space I happened to embalm. I read and drew out the language inside photographs that spoke to me, or that I spoke to. With a lightness of gaze, I sought out scenes in which a melody could be heard, and met them face to face. Among the works in this exhibition, Hokney 02, set against a swimming pool, is a direct homage to David Hockney, whose work I listened about a great deal during my 2018 solo exhibition [CITY OASIS]. That was a meaningful moment—an opening to a new work made through the influence visitors had on me. It is the act of making yet another new reminiscence out of the languages of new reminiscences. The works in this show, photographed just before COVID-19, were made from the motif of vivid memory, a little more lavishly, perhaps a little more idealized than they really were. Places I could once reach without any restriction now feel, walled off by an invisible barrier, like a single dreamlike vision—that became the central perspective and the way I rendered them. Each moment becomes a process of survival; we are experiencing birth and death, an extreme balance. I came to realize that the daily life that seemed endless was in truth profoundly finite. The form things have taken now, born of an unknowable longing, may perhaps be the defense mechanism of that animal called the human, which has awakened these works.
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- For you —
- One of only 10 limited prints
- For the artist —
- the pride of standing with a peer
- For a fellow artist —
- 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.