Goh Chaboon 고차분
Korea ｜ 1985
[Solo Exhibitions]
2023 “From Home To Home”, The Hyundai Print Bakery, Seoul
2023 “The Abyss of My Mind”, The Hyundai Print Bakery, Seoul
2022 “As the Heart Builds” Art Space, Gwangju
2021 “Salon Art Shopping Au Carrousel Du Louvre”, Louvre Museum, Paris
2019 “Welcome”, Exhibition, Soar Art Museum, Hwasun
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[Two Person Exhibition / Collaborative exhibition]
2024 “Jin Young And Goh Cha Boon”, Gallery Ilho, Seoul
2023 “Space of Breath By Lee Ki suk And Goh Cha Boon”, harang Gallery, Seoul
2023 “HypeN With Land Rover Korea”, Range Rover House
[Group Exhibitions]
2024
“KIAF SEOUL 2024”, COEX, Seoul
“The 30th Contemporary Art Korea & Japan”, Kubota Gallery, Tokyo
“ART TO GO“, Hyundai Department Store (PanGyo Store), Seoul
“How Art Sustains Itself in the Age of AI“, Chosun University Museum of Art, Gwangju
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2023
“Seoul Art Show”, COEX, Seoul
“We Were All Children”, Harang Gallery, Seoul
“DIAF“, EXCO, Daegu
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2022
Damyang Art Week”, Damidam Art District, Damyang
“24th Art International Zurich”, Zurich Convention Center, Zurich
“With Covid-19 – Life ” Dorim Gallery, Mokpo
Artist’s Note on A Dimensional House
A place where physical attributes and abstract concepts, anxiety and fear, stability and pleasure all coexist, this is the home I lived in as a child. We often think of home as a haven, but havens don’t hold anxiety and fear the way homes do. Still, if someone says that their home truly is an actual haven, that person may not have experienced the haven in a sense of their whole personality. The aspect of life that was considered haven-like, like momentary happiness, will be like a grain of sand slipping through the fingers.
My home was an imperfect place, always a mixture of stability and anxiety; it was a place of mood swings. I realize that this environment still influences my life today, even as an adult. Whenever I am tormented by memories of the past and all sorts of troubles, I feel the products of my ruminations grow into sharp thorns within me.
A three-dimensional house made by applying thick layers of paint unintentionally hardened the shapes of the house into very sharp points. When I cut off the sharp lumps with scissors and carved them out with a sculpture tool, I sometimes cut my hands and even the canvas fabric. As I did this over and over again, I realized that the sharply hardened houses resembled my inner self.
I stood in front of the canvas, confronting my inner self, bringing out the anxiety and pain of the past I could not let go of, and cutting it out with the sharp lumps. Then I deliberately reflect on it, and I consider all of it, even the unconsciousness lodged in the corners of my mind, to be a sharp house, and I dismantle it. I continue to build a house in this way until I have built a true house—not a material house, but a house of the mind and heart.
[Painting Caption]
1. <Traces of Home-2407>, 53X40.9cm, acrylic on canvas, 2024
2. <Traces of Home-2408>, 53X40.9cm, acrylic on canvas, 2024
3. <Traces of Home-2402>, 145.5X97cm, acrylic on canvas, 2024
4. <Traces of Home>, 90.9x65.1cm, acrylic on canvas, 2024
5. <The Process - Be Hurted, Be Embraced>, 90.9x65.1cm, acrylic on canvas, 2024
