Heo Chanmi Korea, b. 1991

Heo Chanmi's paintings delicately imply small and subtle movements that are difficult to recognize, such as a scene of calm in a dream. For example, works tend to focus on capturing small, clichéd objects of urban life, such as grass between sidewalk blocks, magpies sitting on construction steel bars, and manhole covers on concrete roads. As such, her paintings focus on poetic places that do not meet the framework of standards or concepts that represent a purpose, even if they are not socially marginalized or isolated.

In Heo Chanmi's work, the existence of objects does not lead to an anecdotal context but rather reveals a careful intention to approach aspects of reality that are happening by emphasizing the physical specificity of objects and their surroundings. Such intention is well illustrated in her way of painting, and in particular, the delicate and subtle gray tone expresses the artist's perspective on the static world of objects like abandoned and abandoned. Motif's simplicity, immobile passivity, and subtle loneliness are like staying disconnected from objects that are far from the whole.