Seulbin Roh
The intersection of social marginalization, vulnerability and the body as a place of trauma and resistance is explored in the artistic research of Seulbin Roh.
Roh explores how art can offer different ways of understanding that are based on affect, empathy, and embodied experience rather than institutional discourse through installation, sensory environments, and participatory formats.
Based on critical theory, affect studies, and the medical humanities, Roh's work focuses on analyzing normative systems that determine who is seen, heard, and considered legitimate in society.
She examines how language and law, as well as space, perception, and emotional encounters, reflect histories of exclusion related to disability, neurodivergence, gender, race, and mental health.
For Roh, art serves as a tool as well as a reflection. It is an epistemic resistance tactic that creates discomfort, questions prevailing narratives, and provides opportunities for communal moments.
She is interested in creating spaces that value healing, relationships, and contradiction.
Drawing from both lived experience and philosophical research, Roh's method is introspective and frequently collaborative.
She takes a deliberate approach to her materials and audiences, posing questions about not just how we feel but also why we are made to feel that way, as well as how art can momentarily alter those circumstances.
Despite using installation as her primary medium, she also shows a strong interest in the sounds and textures of her pieces, fusing ceramics and found objects to create cohesive pieces.
She continues to create a dynamic, spatial environment for herself and her audience to inhabit throughout the therapeutic approach of her works.
Art can alter our perspective, reshape our relationships with others, and offer new perspectives on what it means to be human, she concludes.
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