Hyunah Koh
Hyunah Koh is a Korean interdisciplinary artist based in London. Working primarily in painting, she expands the medium through material exploration, spatial engagement, and mixed reality. Koh’s practice explores what painting can become through sensory interaction and ecological connection. Her work dissolves boundaries between the physical and digital, surface and experience, inviting viewers to go through and beyond the painting. While expansive in form, her practice also narrows into focused pathways, drawing attention inward and deepening the viewer’s encounter with the painted surface. She recently presented her graduation show at the Royal College of Art and participated in Touch Grass, a group exhibition with Chili Art Project at Chili Gallery.
This painting is part of Hyunah Koh’s Generative Soul series, where the surface becomes a living ecosystem, a space of transition, transformation, and tactile imagination. While titled Surface That Grows, the work simultaneously invites a movement of “going through,” a passage beyond the boundaries of painting.
The warm ecology of this work reflects the artist’s ongoing philosophy to move forward, to keep trying, and to merge with the subtle gaps between the viewer and the painted surface.
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