{"id":1629,"date":"2026-01-31T15:38:28","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T07:38:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cddigitaldev.com\/ombak\/beta\/?p=1629"},"modified":"2026-02-28T03:27:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T19:27:22","slug":"interview-seoul-and-london-based-artist-sooin-huh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cddigitaldev.com\/ombak\/beta\/interview-seoul-and-london-based-artist-sooin-huh\/","title":{"rendered":"Seoul and London-based Artist Sooin Huh"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sooin Huh<\/strong>\u00a0is an artist based in Seoul and London. She received her BA in Fine Art from Goldsmiths, University of London, and her MA in Sculpture from the Royal College of Art. She observes objects through their contexts, relationships, and the narratives accumulated within them. Each object exists where multiple layers of meaning such as social, cultural, and historical codes intersect. She focuses on how objects are rediscovered and interpreted through an archaeological lens, observing how they are continuously redefined and reinterpreted within relationships beyond a linear sense of time. Through this process, she aims to reveal how the classificatory and hierarchical systems we encounter in daily life are provisional and incomplete. In her work, the movements of objects that traverse the boundaries between center and periphery, visibility and invisibility reveal that they are entities negotiating and repositioning themselves within social networks of meaning. Through this process, she also reflects on her own mode of existence and articulates her position toward it.<\/p>

Her major exhibitions include the solo show\u00a0Collected Connection<\/em>\u00a0(Keep in Touch, Seoul, KR, 2023) and group exhibitions\u00a0Assemble\/Fall<\/em>\u00a0(Somers Gallery, London, UK, 2025),\u00a0Festus<\/em>\u00a0(Hangar Gallery, London, UK, 2024), and\u00a0Flash of Light<\/em>\u00a0(Nonscaled, Seoul, KR, 2024). In 2025, she received the Gilbert Bayes Award from the Royal Society of Sculptors (UK) and the Chunman Art for Young Award presented by the Chunman Scholarship Foundation (KR).<\/p>

\"Image
What I Saw While Wandering and Biting<\/em>, 2025, Mixed media, variable dimensions<\/figcaption><\/figure>

Can you tell us about your background and how you started your artistic journey?<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>

I have always been drawn to the physical presence of the objects that surround me in everyday life. I became fascinated by how these objects interact with one another and shape the environment around us. This curiosity gradually developed into an exploration of how objects respond to each other\u2019s movements and form particular relational states. Through this process, I realized that every relationship is shaped through a sense of negotiation and adjustment, which became the starting point of my practice. Living in Seoul and London, two cities that are complex and organically intertwined, I became aware that the relationships between objects extend beyond their material dimension and are deeply connected to social realities. Within this environment, my desire to understand the world naturally evolved into my artistic practice and the visual language I use today.<\/p>

<\/p>

\"Image
Flowing Ground, Traced Remnants<\/em>, 2025, Mixed media, variable dimensions<\/figcaption><\/figure>

<\/p>

Are there any particular mediums you prefer working with? Why?<\/strong><\/p>

I mainly work with found objects, which include everyday items familiar in our surroundings as well as architectural materials and other elements that construct the spaces we inhabit. I choose found objects for their anonymous quality, which allows me to reconsider how existing systems of authority operate. I also use architectural components to stage the theatrical process through which spatial orders are reorganized. Within this process, I focus on the temporary states that emerge when an object\u2019s past time and context enter the present and its relationships become entangled. This state appears at the point where an object attempts to be rewritten within new relationships while simultaneously being held in place by the realities it already belongs to. The two opposing forces interrupt each other, and in this moment of suspension, the object resides in a time where expansion and stillness coexist. In this suspended equilibrium, objects remain unmoving yet continue to function as active entities. Through actions such as overlapping, tilting, imitation, and adaptation, I explore the relational nature of these materials and experiment with how they transition within the systems that shape our world.<\/p>

<\/p>

\"Image
Collected Connection<\/em>, 2023, Sound based installation, mixed media, variable dimensions<\/figcaption><\/figure>

What are the main themes or concepts you explore in your work?<\/strong><\/p>

Exploring the transformation of objects is a way of examining the structure of relationships and, ultimately, observing how different entities perceive and adjust to one another. This relational tension naturally leads to the question of difference and coexistence. What my work ultimately seeks to address is the form of coexistence in which different beings can continue to exist while transforming one another. Although each object carries a distinct origin, these differences are reconfigured within the context of relationships. Through this process of transformation, the objects renew each other, and the meaning of coexistence is continuously redefined. Through my work, I aim to expand the sculptural conditions of coexistence as fluid and open-ended, searching for new languages of relation.<\/p>

<\/p>

\"Image
Collected Connection<\/em>, 2023, Sound based installation, mixed media, variable dimensions<\/figcaption><\/figure>

How do your personal experiences and identity influence your art?<\/strong><\/p>

My personal experiences and identity are closely connected to the sense of existing as an individual within institutional structures. These experiences shape my perspective on how I interpret the world. Objects function as both a language that mediates between myself and the world, and as devices that reflect the identity of the individual formed within systems. The personal or speculative narratives that emerge in my work develop into hypothetical propositions that momentarily twist or reconstruct the order of given environments. Through this process, I explore points of rupture and possibility where change can occur even within fixed structures.<\/p>

<\/p>

\"Image
Beyond a transverse axis<\/em>, 2024, Mixed media, variable dimensions<\/figcaption><\/figure>

Can you describe a recent project or artwork that you are particularly proud of?<\/strong><\/p>

In my recent work\u00a0What I Saw While Wandering and Biting<\/em>, I constructed a private space of an imaginary figure using objects layered with different temporal and cultural histories. This space functions as a point where emotional memory and otherness intersect, and as a self-portrait realized without a physical body. Old still-life paintings and anonymous landscapes blur the boundaries of authorship, history, and cultural authority, revealing a process in which meanings shift and are translated into new contexts. Through this, the work critically examines how structures of identity and value are formed and transformed within relationships where the boundaries between self and others become entangled.<\/p>

<\/p>

<\/p>

\"Image
Archaeology of Three Moons<\/em>, 2020, Mixed media, variable dimensions<\/figcaption><\/figure>

<\/p>

What role do you believe art plays in social and cultural change?<\/strong><\/p>

The change that art generates ultimately lies in questioning what is accepted as reality. Art makes the familiar unfamiliar, prompting us to pause and reconsider the orders and structures we take for granted. This unfamiliarity is not merely a visual disruption but a moment of reflection that reconfigures the systems of language and perception through which the world is understood. I believe that art\u2019s contribution to social change does not reside in directly overturning institutions or norms. Rather, it operates within existing systems, revealing the gaps and residues that those systems fail to perceive, and from there, it experiments with new possibilities of relation. Through this process, art reconstructs the very structures that sustain social reality. I believe that art serves as a field of thought that gently unsettles reality, and that change begins within those subtle disturbances.<\/p>

Text & photo courtesy of\u00a0Sooin Huh<\/strong><\/p>

<\/p>

<\/p>

\"Image<\/figure>

Website:\u00a0https:\/\/www.sooinhuh.com\/<\/a>
Instagram:\u00a0https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/sooin_huh\/<\/a><\/p>



<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sooin Huh\u00a0is an artist based in Seoul and London. She received her BA in Fine Art from Goldsmiths, University of London, and her MA in Sculpture from the Royal College of Art. She observes objects through their contexts, relationships, and the narratives accumulated within them. Each object exists where multiple layers of meaning such as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1630,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_header_footer","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts-culture","category-galeri-petronas"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cddigitaldev.com\/ombak\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cddigitaldev.com\/ombak\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cddigitaldev.com\/ombak\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cddigitaldev.com\/ombak\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cddigitaldev.com\/ombak\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1629"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/cddigitaldev.com\/ombak\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7452,"href":"https:\/\/cddigitaldev.com\/ombak\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1629\/revisions\/7452"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cddigitaldev.com\/ombak\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cddigitaldev.com\/ombak\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cddigitaldev.com\/ombak\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cddigitaldev.com\/ombak\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}