Oh Kyung Jang
OKJ
Portrait of Inner Sensations
2026.03
Oh Kyung Jang
Artist:
physical sensation
Installation
Year
2026
This work begins with an attempt to capture in sculptural form the sensations experienced from within the body. Through objects that give shape to the spaces the body once moved through, sensation is placed outside the body and held at a distance—from which the relationship between sensation and consciousness is questioned.
The feeling of being alive originates deep inside the body, reaching outward, while at the same time external stimuli seep inward. This process of exchange is not merely a physical response; it is the very way in which I come to recognize myself.
The forms that emerge from the body are then placed into space—existing alongside the very body from which they originated. In this simultaneity, the work asks what kind of relationship unfolds between them. How does a form, once separated from its source, continue to speak to it? How do body, object, and space hold and respond to one another as living, interdependent presences?
Drops of water fall on the pure white life. Red water droplets drip down and wet the white surface. The moment it touches white skin, it spreads everywhere. My body exists in this moment. The life is symbolized by paper, and the meaning attached to sex color the life, and leaves trances.
Traces are left on the thighs.
The hand that squeezed the water drops turned bright red, and the same hand had rubbed the skin.
The hand that has been groping the world leaves traces, grabbing metaphors scattered everywhere and engraving them on the body.
The thing I want to say?
Things I didn’t want to hear.
Squeeze down the source that sustains life
To the tongues that forced silence to be a virtue
To be shown, to be heard, to be touched beyond the bosom,
To leave a clear mark.
I raise my hand and follow the world again.
Even if traces fall with every step I take
The traces of existence that flowed from the depths
Dances on a heated playground.
As always changing is,
Stains, traces, shapes, colors,
in repeated actions.
The stubbornness of the beginning
shakes off prejudice and egotism,
Keeping an eye on a deeper place,
Transforming every second.
