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My work emerges from moments of linguistic and cultural translation. When I introduce myself as Heewoong, it is often heard as Hugh in Toronto or Guillaume in Montréal. This recurring misrecognition reveals how language, accent, and identity are continuously reshaped through context.

Through casting and molding processes, I work with disposable and everyday materials to examine how objects, like names, shift in meaning as they move across different systems of understanding. The act of translation—between languages, materials, and places—becomes both a method and a subject.

I consider art as a site where misunderstanding and transformation coexist, offering a way to reflect on migration, adaptation, and the fragile constructions of belonging.
© Jinheewoong