Boram Soh (KR, 1984)
Residency period: January – April 2022
Boram Soh is an artist and researcher who observes the margins of daily life, subcultures, and life in the borderlands. Soh conducts research that relates the abstractness of dominant power structures to general concepts such as the city, place, or the Earth. Her current practice investigates the creation of mythical worlds and various other forms of supernatural culture.
Soh was a participant at Jan van Eyck Academie in the Netherlands (2020–2021), a resident at the Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts in Taiwan (2017) and at the Creation Studio at Jeonbuk Museum in Korea (2017), as well as the recipient of an Arts Council Korea grant in 2020–2021. Soh is an honors graduate from École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-arts de Paris and a BA holders from Korea National University of Arts.
Boram Soh’s aim was to unlock the Neolithic memories contained in the water molecules of Lac Léman, the body of water La Becque touches on, and to understand the mechanisms by which oxygen levels in the atmosphere have greatly varied across the ages and the geological history of the element. Juxtaposing the lake and her own occasional experiences of hyperventilation, she recreated a process of exhalation and inhalation, of carbon dioxide and oxygen exchange, between these two bodies. Through this process, Soh conducted a personal exploration of the concept of the “Anthropocene” and proposed methods of healing (of common breathing) that take into account the memory of matter.