Artist Statement/ Biography

Soeun Bae uses sculpture, technology and performance to question what it is to be living inside of a body. She explores the dissection, mechanization, and objectification of the body to birth a hybrid body that holds potential for optimization as it becomes altered, tested, and used. Combining implied parts of the human body and elements drawn from the natural environment, she makes a series of performative objects in pseudo-natural systems that are necessary for sustenance and regeneration. The systems get translated into objects that present a desensitized and depersonalized way of relating to our bodies- bodies in need of regeneration and transformation in a world of consumption and utilization.

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Soeun Bae is a multidisciplinary artist working with sculpture, technology, and performance, based in Brooklyn, NY. She holds a BFA in Sculpture at the Rhode Island School of Design. Soeun is the 2023 recipient of the T&W Contemporary Visual Art Award from the AHL Foundation, and she was an artist in residence at the Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Snowmass, CO in 2024. Her work has been exhibited in New York, NY, Providence, RI, Birmingham, AL and Seoul, SK. < BACK