Suju Ahn

I create figurative paintings centered on everyday food ingredients. These materials, encountered repeatedly in daily life, are not only objects of consumption but also presences that shape our bodies, emotions, and ways of living. I focus on their materiality, their quiet presence, and their silent state of being. 
In observing them, I confront a tension between respecting these objects and my own condition as someone who inevitably consumes them. These materials are both intimate and inevitably treated as objects of consumption. Here, consumption includes both the consumption of images and the physical act of ingestion. This unresolved dilemma continues to shape the way I relate to these materials. 
Through calm and restrained compositions, I attend closely to surfaces, textures, and forms, seeking to encounter these objects beyond their functional roles. Rather than interpreting them, I focus on the act of facing them, allowing a space where different modes of existence can quietly emerge. 

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