Exhibition Information

When I meet species
2018 Oil color On Canvas 270x155cm

Root 5
2019 Pencil on Canvas 42x29cm

Deep sea
2016 Acrylic, Oil on Paper 180x270cm

Striker 1945
2016 Oil On Canvas 90x110cm

			Biophilia
“Biophilia” is a combination of the words “Bio-,” which means “life,” and “-philia,” which means “love” in Greek. Through the exhibition “Biophilia,” Ahn depicts her wish to achieve a symbiotic relationship between local natives and newly appearing members in society, such as cyborgs, migrants, foreigners and the like, by diminishing the conflicts and hatred among them. 
For almost 10 years, Ahn has travelled and worked back and forth in Austria, the U.K. and Korea. What caught her eyes the most during this period of the rapidly changing environment and cultures was growing hatred towards refugees and foreigners. Furthermore, she sensed the growing gap between different economic and political classes, races, religions, or genders. 
Growth made by the discrimination and hierarchal system is no longer sustainable. Seoul had achieved rapid economic growth through it, however which brought many problems as well, such as discrimination and inequalities in the society. People having different backgrounds have already been living in Seoul and more and more people is gathering to Seoul. Ahn thinks that a life of coexistence and harmony is the only way to minimize the conflicts and hatred in society, to build a new social frame and to increase public understanding about the change.
At the exhibition “Biophilia,” Ahn introduces artworks depicting the world of co-existence she has imagined since 2015.