Hemin Ji

Lives and works in Dresden, Germany

Artist statement

Biograpy: Hemin Ji (b. 1998, South Korea) is a visual artist working between Dresden, Germany, and Groningen, the Netherlands. Working across painting, photography, sculpture, and installation, her practice investigates how forms persist through repetition, displacement, and transformation. Beginning with photographs taken during her travels, she fragments and reconfigure images across different materials and media, tracing how provisional arrangements gradually acquire continuity and meaning. Moving between painterly surfaces, photographic fragments, and spatial constructions, her works explore the unstable conditions through which perception, memory, and cultural forms are continuously negotiated rather than fixed. Artist Statement: My interest in painting begins with an attention to how things exist and change beyond the meanings assigned to them. I have long been drawn to the possibility that objects possess a presence of their own, rather than existing only through our perception of them. This interest is connected to an early memory of running through a field of plants taller than my body. What remains with me is the density of the plants surrounding me: an environment that was not simply seen, but encountered through my entire body. I return to this sense of density in my painting, where forms develop through the accumulation of gestures rather than from a predetermined image. I build layers of paint through an intuitive, often random process, allowing colors and...

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