Taewon Ahn’s (b. 1993, Seoul, South Korea) labor-intensive works are pulled from the lexicon of digital exoticism, transience and spectacle, upended with emancipatory promises through analogue processes. Born during the unruly and rapid moment when analog turned digital, his anomalous sculptures and paintings act as a contemplation on the consumption of images.

As the birth and death of images are repeated infinitely online, Ahn seeks to depict how technology and late capitalism have been corporally absorbed and continually alter our perception of reality. His practice honours the nonsense, ruse and the erroneous nature of existence. Resembling the filters we play with on our phones, he seamlessly texture-maps depictions of Hiro, his pet cat, onto organically contorting resin forms. Ahn confronts the malleability of representation and the enduring process of becoming. In his latest body of works, he introduces a new character into the memeitic universe of his own creation, Mako the kitten.

Taewon Ahn majored in painting at Chung-Ang University, Seoul. Selected solo and group exhibitions include P21, Seoul; Project Native Informant, London; Cylinder, Seoul; Gallery Stan, New York and Seoul; CON __, Tokyo; MoCA Busan, Busan; The Hole, New York; Everyday Gallery, Antwerp; SeMA Warehouse; Seoul; Chang Ucchin Museum of Art, Yangju; Soorim Cultural Foundation, Seoul.