Artist
More Exhibitions at Subtitled NYC
Similar Exhibitions
Guestbook
Press Release
Shapes that once suggested familiar forms are cut, flattened, and stitched, only to reemerge as something unexpected—uncanny, even: a dog’s muzzle, a gummy bear, or a face caught in either a smile or a gasp. In her latest series, Unpleasant Episodes, Kai Oh weaves together humor, defiance, and—crucially—her own breasts and nipples. For Oh, the body is a site of both intimacy and projection, shaped as much by personal experience as by external scrutiny. Women’s breasts and nipples, in particular, are often subject to double standards: celebrated as symbols of beauty or desire under certain conditions, yet deemed indecent and in need of covering or flattening under others. Oh confronts these contradictions through the fragmentation and reassembly of these bulbous curves and protrusions, underscoring how they are simultaneously hyper-visible and overlooked.
By foregrounding her body, Oh intentionally objectifies herself, a gesture that draws inevitable comparisons to...More
Exhibition Space
Metadata
Claims
Press Release
Shapes that once suggested familiar forms are cut, flattened, and stitched, only to reemerge as something unexpected—uncanny, even: a dog’s muzzle, a gummy bear, or a face caught in either a smile or a gasp. In her latest series, Unpleasant Episodes, Kai Oh weaves together humor, defiance, and—crucially—her own breasts and nipples. For Oh, the body is a site of both intimacy and projection, shaped as much by personal experience as by external scrutiny. Women’s breasts and nipples, in particular, are often subject to double standards: celebrated as symbols of beauty or desire under certain conditions, yet deemed indecent and in need of covering or flattening under others. Oh confronts these contradictions through the fragmentation and reassembly of these bulbous curves and protrusions, underscoring how they are simultaneously hyper-visible and overlooked.
By foregrounding her body, Oh intentionally objectifies herself, a gesture that draws inevitable comparisons to...More
Exhibition Space
Artist
More Exhibitions at Subtitled NYC
Similar Exhibitions
