acrylic gouache on canvas

The Busan based artist Chan-mi Heo (b.1991) concentrates on capturing small, banal, seemingly unimportant things and motives from the city life, such as weeds nestled between sidewalk blocks, a magpie sitting on a construction rebar, a manhole cover noticeable on concrete road.

In Heo's work, there is a poetically intensified place for things that are neither socially approved or pushed out, nor ideologically determined, nor representative for any purpose or even any intention. They are provisory, fragile, unattractive, evoking the ephemera of personal existence, while expanding into a social context of anonymous objectivity filed by poetical resignation.