Play: Rhythm of Abuse - K-ARTIST

Play: Rhythm of Abuse

2024
Plexiglass board, expanded polystyrene, urethane resin, epoxy resin, FRP, putty, copper pipe, charcoal, graphite powder, silicone
200 × 100 × 45 cm
About The Work

Haneyl Choi uses and mixes the two axes of sculpture and queerness in form and content depending on the circumstances. Exploring the intersections of body, emotion, and social structures, Choi’s practice centers on queer identity and human experience.
 
Through this, Haneyl Choi presents a scene in which real and unreal bodies, multiple bodily moments, and permanent and mutable materials are collectively intertwined and recontextualized as a single notion of “the body.”
 
Haneyl Choi does not hesitate to reveal himself as a queer artist in a conservative Korean society through a candid mode of expression rather than a circuitous one. By translating his own bodily and social experiences into the language of sculpture, he articulates his identity while speaking to the lives of queer people in Korea today—their families, and the relationships they form with their own bodies.
 
Moreover, in Choi's works, the anonymous assemblages of fragmented and dismantled body parts enable new imaginings of the human form, proposing a solidarity that extends beyond mere resemblance.

Works of Art

A Scene Recontextualized as a ‘Body’

Works of Art

A Scene Recontextualized as a ‘Body’

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