Time, Body, and Silence
Sangghil Oh
Time-based artist | Body | Resistance | Trace | Silence
“What cannot be said—must be drawn, screamed, or scattered.”
POSITION
The world does not exist as a form simply visible to my eyes.
It emerges through the way I perceive it.
Rather than defining things, I have remained on the side of articulating them through sensation.
These works were a practice of relating to the world through that sensation.
Axis / Transition
That sensation emerged where objects, bodies, and time briefly came to rest.
OBJECTS 1985–1995
In OBJECTS, sensation arose at the point of contact with things.
Here, objects were not treated as forms to be shaped, but as presences temporarily placed within specific times and locations, only to be returned afterward.
Meaning was not assigned to objects;
sensation occurred solely within the conditions of their placement and release.
These works do not ask what an object is, but reveal how sensation takes form
in the process of appearing and disappearing.
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VIDEOS 1993–2017
In VIDEOS, that sensation shifted from external objects into the artist’s own body.
The body is placed within frames and exposed to conditions of gaze, time, and psychological response.
What matters here is not the medium itself, but the way sensation passes through the body under conditions of control and delay.
In this phase, sensation no longer resides in things, but emerges from the body within regulated time.
DRAWINGS 2011–2026
In DRAWINGS, sensation moves once again, deeper inward.
These works withdraw from the conventional centers of painting
—image, narrative, composition, expression.
Drawing is no longer a means of conveying intention,
but becomes an event produced collectively by material, body, and time.
In this process, action loses linearity,
and what remains on the surface is a scene of traces without a predetermined destination.
The sensation that arises there, attuned to the handling of material,
opens a path toward a more fundamental sense of the aesthetic, prior to painting itself.
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