스킵네비게이션

Born in 1989, Seoul, South Korea

Lives in Seoul

RAM HAN, Case_01_01(toxin), 2020, Digital painting, light panel, 100×100cm

 

RAM HAN’s digital painting, lightboxes, and installations have deep roots in the fantasy genre, pop- and manga culture. The imaginary worlds that RAM HAN creates are digital drawn on tablets, processed through Photoshop, altered, and distorted with various tweaks and transitions. The digital paintings consist of lush, striking, blight and often candy-colored images featuring luxurious rooms, jewelry, foods, showers, flowers among other things. At first glance they appear as attractive advertisement images for must-have products or dreamy places you know, have seen or want to visit. However, at a closer look the eye-catching, desirable pictures have a slight dystopian and psychedelic twist, almost as if they are seen through a magnifying glass of hallucinations.

RAM HAN is a digital native and raised with the internet and social media. Naturally, a large portion of her practice happens online and appears as a fluid exchange between real life experiences and the virtual world. The images that inspire RAM HAN she often finds on social media, she paints them digitally, produces and displays them as square lightboxes—mimicking the shape from Instagram and social media. After the works are shown in galleries or museums, she crops them and releases the fragments on social media, and hereby creates a full circle of recycled imagery of both real and virtual experiences.