Yeji Cho
Bio: Yeji is an interdisciplinary artist working across sculpture, video, performance and drawing. She seeks an existence that emeges not from binary differences in language, but through the reconfiguring of being in personal modes of sensation and lived trajectories of action. Currently based in New York and South Korea, she held the solo exhibition in CICA Museum, and participated in group exhibitions in Wallach Art Gallery, Busan Museum of Contemporary Art, Museumhead, Seoul Arts Center.
Thesis Exhibition
Artist Statement:
Being is often found in the tug of a relationship or the echo of a sensation, rather than in labels and names. I set aside the entities from language and look for ways to reassemble being, starting from senses within the web of mutual reliance that makes existence possible.
The experience of my work often incorporates other senses like touch, vibration, or sound to draw the audience into the web of relations. The recent work, Species (2025) comes from seeing the way the fetus and the mother lean into one another to exist. I often feel that a pregnant woman belongs to neither the category of man nor woman, but a new species. I took the dual pulses of the mother and the formless fetus, and merged them with the rounded weight of the pregnant belly, turning them into an independent existence. The rhythm of two heartbeats is familiar but strange under the silicone skin. The vibration is transmitted to the hand of the viewers and into the wall.
Yeji Cho
Homeland in Another’s Skin, 2025
Graphite on paper
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Homeland in Another’s Skin, 2026
Wood, steel, motor, sensor, and sound
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First Year Exhibition
eji Cho
Prosthetic Organism, 2025
Plastic, electronic wires, Arduino, motors, speaker, paper, and frame
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