Hae Won Sohn

Emmanuel Barbault Gallery is pleased to announce Monologue aside, a solo exhibition by Hae Won Sohn. This will be Hae Won Sohn's first solo show with Emmanuel Barbault Gallery.

"Monologue aside is an exhibition where the fundamental principles around ceramics act as a direct linear narrative for intervention. Hae Won Sohn's casted objects align with process based practices that employ a systematized process. The pieces in the exhibition challenge the method from which artists extract forms by using alternative or counter means found in traditional mold making. The work brings attention to the distinction between process based ceramics and artists' methods in which autonomy influences object making.

The language of materials is the relationship between elements and other objects; its accounts are relational to the division of the perceived use. By lifting the proscenium frame, one can communicate a receptiveness that is amenable to the medium and the viewer's experience.

Hae Won Sohn's work invokes a clear discernment of practice and familiarity surrounding object making. Sohn's practice offers the possibility of open and discursive dialogue around artistic modes and non-traditional approaches to traditional materials."

- excerpt from an original essay by Rod Malin. Catalogue published by Emmanuel Barbault

Hae Won Sohn (b.1992) is a visual artist/sculptor, currently living in Baltimore, MD and working between Baltimore and New York. Sohn’s recent practice examines the wholeness of fragmented and extractive forms, and their evolution through repetitional casting. Coming from Seoul, South Korea; Sohn earned her Master of Fine Arts degree at Cranbrook Academy of Art. Prior to Cranbrook, she achieved her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Ceramics from the College of Design at Kookmin University located in Seoul.

Sohn has been selected as a finalist for the inaugural 2019 Galerie Emerging Artist Award). Her work has been exhibited internationally at venues including Emmanuel Barbault Gallery, New York, NY; Gray Contemporary, Houston, TX; Mono Practice, Baltimore, MD; Next Step Studio & Gallery, Ferndale, MI; Zahoorul Akhlaq Gallery of National College of Arts, Lahore, Pakistan; and Kyung-In Museum of Fine Art, Seoul, South Korea.

Rod Malin is a Baltimore/NYC-based artist, curator, and educator who holds a self-accredited Ph.D. in contextual theory and liminal cultural studies. Malin is a founder and director of Guest Spot @ The Reinstitute (Baltimore), Co-Founder Transmitter Gallery Brooklyn, NY, and Co-Director Mono Practice (Baltimore).