Darkroom
The Darkroom series inhabits spaces where encounter, desire, and bodily sensation reach their highest intensity. Darkness here is not simply a condition of concealment; rather, in the suspension of clear visibility, the body relinquishes its fixed contours. Perception and senses converge, and the experience slips into a suspended register in which touch, proximity, and intuition supersede sight.
Figures emerge without stability or singular definition. Bodies intertwine, boundaries dissolve, and the distinction between self and other becomes porous. This indeterminacy mirrors the emotional architecture of intimacy itself—where closeness and distance, attraction and hesitation, connection and withdrawal coexist within the same relational realm.
Yet the freedom suggested by the darkroom remains transient. The eventual return to illuminated spaces, where bodies are once again rendered legible, categorized, and subject to regulation, obliterate the momentary liberation provided by the darkness. The series traces the emergence of desire in these suspended moments and how darkness operates not as a permanent refuge, but as a threshold—an interval that provides an alternative sensory order before dissolving back into visibility.
Written by John Silvis
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On The Starry Night, We Drifted
Ink, Watercolor on Korean paper, 2024
200 x 250 cm
Excessive Disregard or Excessive Protection
Ink, Watercolor on Korean paper, 2024
125 x 150 cm
We Sat With Our Backs Turned and Looked In Different Directions
Ink, Watercolor on Korean paper, 2024
130 x 140 cm
I was there, and I became another one
Ink, Watercolor on Korean paper, 2023
195 x 325 cm
A Portrait of Someone
Ink, Watercolor on Korean paper, 2024
30 x 30 cm
A Portrait of Someone
Ink, Watercolor on Korean paper, 2024
30 x 30 cm
A Portrait of Someone
Ink, Watercolor on Korean paper, 2024
30 x 30 cm
What I Felt Was Darkness
Ink, Watercolor on Korean paper, 2023
125 x 65 cm
Where Are We Headed
Ink, Watercolor on Korean paper, 2023
65 x 125 cm
What I Felt Was Darkness
Ink, Watercolor on Korean paper, 2023
100 x 80 cm
What You Want Everything Is Here
Ink, Watercolor on Korean paper, 2023
100 x 60 cm
Everyone’s Hidden Space
Ink, Watercolor on Korean paper, 2023
200 x 65 cm
Letter to Someone
Ink, Watercolor on Korean paper, 2023
200 x 65 cm
The Space In November Where They Live
Ink, Watercolor on Korean paper, 2023
200 x 65 cm
A City Where The Dawn Air Flows
Ink, Watercolor on Korean paper, 2023
125 x 65 cm
Somewhere That Exists
Ink, Watercolor on Korean paper, 2023
125 x 65 cm
Our Day Was Long
Ink, Watercolor on Korean paper, 2023
125 x 65 cm
Dark Room
Ink, Watercolor on Korean paper, 2023
60 x 60 cm
Self Portrait
Ink, Watercolor on Korean paper, 2023
30 x 30 cm
Somewhere That Exist
ink on Korean paper, 2023
30 x 30 cm
Self Portrait
Watercolor on Korean paper, 2023
30 x 30 cm
Somewhere That Exist
ink on Korean paper, 2023
30 x 30 cm
The Place Where You Stayed
Ink, Watercolor on Korean paper, 2023
125 x 65 cm
The Place Where You Stayed
Ink, Watercolor on Korean paper, 2023
125 x 65 cm
Time To Meet
Ink on Korean paper, 2022
53 x 41 cm
Delusion
Ink on Korean paper, 2022
28 x 17cm
Where Can I Find You
Ink, Watercolor on Korean paper, 2023
65 x 60 cm
Time To Meet
Ink on Korean paper, 2022
53 x 41 cm
A Night To Meet Everyone
Ink, Watercolor on Korean paper, 2022
28 x 17cm
The Place Where Blue Water Flows
Ink, Watercolor on Korean paper, 2023
65 x 60 cm
A Self Portrait
Ink, Watercolor on Korean paper, 2023
30 x 30 cm
A Self Portrait
Ink, Watercolor on Korean paper, 2023
30 x 30 cm
The Space in Sepetember Where They Live
Ink on Korean paper, 2022
65 x 125 cm
Delusion
Ink, Watercolor on Korean paper, 2022
28 x 17cm
The Space in October Where They Live
Ink on Korean paper, 2022
125 x 65 cm
Walking With The Moon
Ink, Watercolor on Korean paper, 2022
28 x 17cm
Walking With The Sun
Ink, Watercolor on Korean paper, 2022
28 x 17cm
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