Eunphil Cho

Biography

Eunphil Cho has experimented with variations in her work across a variety of media, among them sculpture, installation art, performance art, and site-specific art. With a background in sculpture, Cho transforms everyday objects and spaces into surreal, blue-hued environments that invite viewers into an otherworldly realm. As the color we recognize visually is very psychological thing, An individual can prefer specific colors, and sometimes this can even appear as a delusional tendency. In her case, the most important thing when she buy something is whether it is blue or not. In one respect, it can be regarded as just an individual taste. But as daily life come to be connected to blue stuff and space around them which are determined like that and these spaces become very familiar, she started to delude the blue color as her other self beyond the matter of just preference. And naturally it was to relate with world of art. Eunphil Cho's artwork is installation work transfering daily material into supernatural and uncommon space with blue-centered modeling element. This kind of installation work is original experiment and challenge. And the space created through this process offers experience of strange moment not only to observers but also herself. While blue symbolizes positive and ideal power, it also has extreme image which symbolizes grief, emptiness, and high solitude. But for her, blue has been used as transfering stuff and space of reality or excluding realistic images. In other words, it plays a role to get rid of reality completely in artwork, and it becomes major channel which translate reality into unreality. Also her formation of artwork in usage of color is a function of an equipment trying to restrict or overcome characteristic of specific space, and has escapism meaning.