featured artists
from paris with color
Experience the glitch and glow of cultural codes with Beah Shin.
Merging classical and contemporary aesthetics, Beah Shin’s work draws from both historical painting and lesser-known subcultural visual sources. She reinterprets Western and Korean artistic landscape traditions through the lens of punggyeong, a concept that reflects the vast and relational harmony of the universe in a way that transcends the single observer’s gaze.
Beah begins by putting visions to paper, focusing on composition and color while adopting traditional concepts such as infinity and the void. She also favors paints that are not typically seen in the production of fine art. In a recent series titled Cry Wolf, she unites the colors of Korean heritage with fluorescent shades or Vantablack to elicit shifts in temporality and sensation, all the while depicting personal landmark experiences in the Parisian urban sprawl.
Beah’s perception of color has been informed and refined by cross-cultural encounters across environmental, educational, and social contexts. It stands as a medium through which to express an array of space-time experiences pertinent to her life, criss-crossing sporadically through physical, digital, virtual, and AI-generated realms. She is attracted to colors shaped by contemporary socio-cultural codes, either blending them into hybridized variations or resisting them entirely to accentuate the tensions between the cultural and political ideologies of her time.
