Roh Gippeum works between painting and ceramics, exploring how perception shapes form before meaning intervenes. Trained in ceramics at Seoul National University, she carries a sculptural sensitivity into her paintings - an awareness of weight, volume, touch, and the slow rhythm of forming matter.

Her practice begins by stripping away the names, functions, and cultural roles that society assigns to objects. Rather than depicting what we know, she seeks to encounter things as they are, prior to language or categorization. Through careful observation and intuitive gesture, she captures the essence of objects through her own perceptual and sensory systems, as if viewing them for the first time.

In this process, familiar forms loosen and reorganize. The once-distinct boundaries of everyday objects merge or dissolve into shadow, mass, and rhythm. What emerges on the canvas are entirely new images - traces that had never existed before, created through the act of seeing. Ordinary objects become extraordinary, transformed by the subtle tension between memory and forgetting, recognition and abstraction.

For Roh, seeing is an act of unlearning. She disassembles habitual perception, asking:

What remains when we stop naming?
What forms arise when we simply look?

The shapes that appear - somewhere between sculpture, drawing, and dream - invite viewers to rediscover the world freed from definition, where matter breathes, expands, and reorganizes itself into poetic possibility.