Closing Reception | Barcode Landscape — Landscapes of a Coded World 2025, A Solo Exhibition by Hyun-Young Oh
Please join us at Neighbor Gallery in celebrating the critically acclaimed Barcode Landscape: Landscapes of a Coded World, a solo exhibition by Korean artist Hyun-Young Oh, whose mixed media works fuse traditional aesthetics with contemporary digital imagery. Drawing from the visual language of Sansuhwa — Korean landscape painting — Oh reimagines mountains, waterfalls, and cityscapes using barcodes, bitcoin logos, and receipts sourced from her personal life.
In this body of work, Oh confronts what it means to live in both a physical and digital world and questions where one ends and the other begins. Through silkscreen, collage, and acrylic paint, she builds slow and textured compositions that invite viewers to look, look again, and then look yet again to observe that what was once a brief moment in time has been remade into an immovable and tactile work of art.
Grace Oller, Curator of Barcode Landscape writes:
“Rather than resist the truth that our world is becoming increasingly more dependent on digital forms of connection, Oh situates herself within this discourse by using the very symbols and codes she seeks to question as modes to visually connect.”
Oh’s work is a meditation on presence, memory, and transformation. Her encrypted landscapes blur the line between the organic and the synthetic, the personal and the universal. In doing so, she asks: what are we really seeing? And what have we lost in translation?
Barcode Landscape is a timely and poignant exploration of how digital footprints shape our perception of the natural world—and how art can reclaim space for reflection, touch, and hope.
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🌐 Visit her website: www.hyunyoungoh.com
📩 For inquiries, contact Hyunjin Koo at [email protected]