“Nor When It Altered” by Daun Suh

Oil and charcoal powder on dyed linen, 24x43”

Daun Suh’s paintings reinterpret traditional representation by approaching the body as an archetypal form—simultaneously physical and psychological, material and immaterial. Working with charcoal powder and oil on hand-dyed linen, Suh creates enlarged figures that playfully engage with the tension between solid volume and fluid abstraction. 

These figures are often fragmented, merged, and reconfigured, generating new forms that remain unstable and unresolved. Through the use of diptychs and triptychs, bodies are divided yet connected, exploring the shifting boundaries between personal identity and collective experience. 

In their oil on canvas works, images develop through a continuous process of layering and erasure, allowing voluminous forms to emerge and dissolve over time. Across both approaches, the figure is never fixed; it hovers in a state of constant transformation—where the weight of the physical form and the ethereal nature of inner states overlap.

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