2025 Plexiglass board, stainless steel pipe, expanded polystyrene, urethan resin, epoxy resin, silicon, putty, and bronze pipe 200 x 65 x 135 cm
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.