lives and works Halle
chaebinhan94@gmail.com
The world is constantly changing, and we, living within it, also change. Our inner selves and senses are not fixed entities but flow fluidly through moments of experience and relationships. I explore this flow of transformation and connection—fluidity and organicity—and question how we perceive ourselves, relate to others, and sensorially exist in a world mediated by technology.
In Korea, I lived under the pressure of having to find a fixed identity. As a child, I felt relief in the internet as a space where I didn’t need to define myself in specific terms. At the same time, maintaining such a fluid self in the real world was difficult, and this dissonance deepened the pressure to prove a “true self.” Moreover, the anxiety of not fitting into Korea’s standardized image of self further amplified this pressure and gradually pushed me into a rigid form. However, through living in Germany and engaging in various relationships in Berlin, I came to understand that not only my thoughts and senses but everything around me was continuously in flux. This became a turning point in my artistic direction.
This realization led me to revisit media as a language capable of expressing fluidity and organicity. Through media experimentation in school, I found that media—transcending physical boundaries, transforming forms, and containing layered narratives—was a language well-suited to my exploration. Since then, I have worked on visualizing the essence of transformation through media. Using 3D scans and moving images, I examined how individuals come to accept their changing selves, and how the essence of a person is reinterpreted through others’ perspectives. At the intersection of human gaze and AI algorithms, I questioned: Is the image created by AI still me? This became an inquiry into the reconstruction of identity.
Recently, I’ve been focusing on the feeling of longing for connection while simultaneously drifting away from it. In a society where not all connections lead to genuine contact, people oscillate between connection and disconnection—experiencing isolation within proximity and resonance within detachment. I see this not as a “failed connection” but as the potential for an open community composed of beings with different rhythms—a vision I call Alle. True autonomy lies in embracing difference and misalignment, which reveals more delicate forms of identity and existence, often outside of conventional networks. I explore how existing social structures isolate individuals and numb our senses, and I aim to address this sensorially through my practice.
In the fluid and organic sense where everything forms and dissolves, I aim to translate the experience of passing through these states into my work.
The MNE project resonates with the core concepts I explore—fluidity and connection. Media today is a condition through which we perceive and reconstruct the world. Through this project, I seek to expand my inquiry into media-based perception and reflect collectively with fellow artists on identity and sensory experience.
This project unfolds across two interconnected parts: an AI-generated image series that visualizes the self through faces shaped by others’ words, and a video that explores how identity is continuously reshaped through the interplay between the self, others, and the machine. Together, they examine a composite presence formed through entangled reactions, traces, and signals—a way of being.
The first part, a photo series, investigates how self-image is mediated by the gaze of others. Sentences collected from others are combined with the artist’s facial data and processed through AI to generate new faces, which are then layered. These overlapping images reflect the tensions between externally imposed identities and internal self-perception.
The second part, a video, follows the fragmentation and reconstruction of identity within a network of information, sensation, and machine logic. It traces how the self becomes a shifting formation—shaped by disruption, error, and entangled relations—revealing identity as a hybrid and continuously evolving presence.