Eunnam Hong

Eunnam Hong’s paintings, inspired by film and fashion, feature delicately rendered self-portraits often showing multiple versions of herself within a single space. Working from her own photographs, she conceals her face with a blonde wig—a motif drawn from filmmakers like John Cassavetes and Wong Kar-wai—creating ambiguous, introspective figures. Her oil on linen works depict quiet, intimate settings that reflect her inner world, blending self-representation and autofiction with uncanny domestic scenes. These figures interact with recurring symbolic objects, exploring themes of cultural otherness, agency, anonymity, and desire. Hong’s narrative unfolds nonlinearly, with time and characters overlapping in a continuous flow. The pale, sculptural appearance of her “cloned” figures evokes masks that both reveal and hide, addressing societal ideals of beauty, identity performance, and gender roles. Architectural elements such as doorways and stairwells create slightly off-kilter stages where tension between control and freedom plays out. Through these composed yet mysterious environments, Hong invites viewers to engage with the complex dynamics of identity, masking, and the subtle interplay of opposing forces within everyday life. ...