Time, Body, and Silence
Sangghil Oh
Time-based artist | Body | Resistance | Trace | Silence
“What cannot be said—must be drawn, screamed, or scattered.”
TIME
Perception awakens in the gap between moments.
Random fuck, 2004
video flash & MX, sound
This work arranges a 0.8-second cry of "fuck" in a non-repeating sequence using a frequency algorithm, presenting it in parallel with its original linear playback. It explores the gap between repetition and randomness, structure and un-structure. Time is fractured; meaning, dismantled.
Dung dung dung-du-kung, 2001
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single channel video installation, sound
Drifting, waver... There was energy in the collisions of hesitation and rhythm—when the body is caught by emotion. The repeated chants and gestures lightly skimmed unconscious layers, and the body became a ground of recollection.
untitled, 2025
By layering ink and gesso on the surface and grazing or erasing it with charcoal, this drawing experiments with the boundary between “drawing” and “erasing.” It is a direct trace of bodily time—where slow touch and quick reaction collide.
A certain Democracy, 2016–2017
I wanted to confront the "surfaces of deceit"—where public ideals collide with the naked reality of power, and perpetrators pose as victims. ‘Democracy’ has become a shield for some, while real bodies are split and pushed away in silence.
This work places the vulnerable body at the forefront to mirror a distorted reality—and questions what art can still say to a democracy reduced to a mere tool.
This is where the traces of time end.
You may now see and hear the conversations of MARU—
with a different body and a different silence.
charcoal & gesso, oriental ink with water, 42.9 x 30.8 inches
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