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Uri Han
낱낱의 사람 Individual | 2017 | 3’7”
Courtesy the Artist. Supported by Seoul Foundation for the Arts and Culture (SFAC)
Courtesy the Artist. Supported by Seoul Foundation for the Arts and Culture (SFAC)
Individual (2017) begins with a simple gesture: sentences written with the right index finger across an open left palm. The text clearly exists on screen, but can only be read by following the video from start to finish with sustained attention; if the viewer fails to remember the preceding sequence of gestures, it immediately becomes indecipherable. This video materializes time through the medium of “disappearance.” Within the 16mm film, still time and flowing time, time that can be remembered and time that ultimately eludes capture, coexist simultaneously. Viewers move between reading and forgetting, experiencing the layered strata of time that the image produces.
About the artist
Uri Han explores the world of disappearing objects through video, installation, and books. Focusing on the relationship between image and language, she moves between the old and the new, the hidden and the revealed, fact and fiction, seeking new ways to see the everyday world around us. In recent years, she has been particularly interested in 16mm film, a medium on the verge of disappearance, along with the relationships surrounding it and its temporalities. Through the relationship between digital and analog media, she asks whether it might be possible to renew our binary understanding of linear temporality. Han has held solo exhibitions at Amado Art Space (2024), BOAN1942 (2022), and Cheongju Art Studio (2020), and has participated in group exhibitions at the Nam June Paik Art Center (2025), ARKO Art Center (2025), EXiS (2025), Frieze Film (2023), and Hite Collection (2023), among others.