A Distance For All, But A Distance For No One at Anna Zorina Gallery, New York, NY, 2025
If everyone feels distant emotionally, culturally, or spiritually, then perhaps no one is truly alone. In this way, distance is not isolation, but a quiet collective state. Alternatively, if no one is truly distant, then perhaps distance itself is an illusion, a shifting perception rather than a fixed space. Choi’s work inhabits this ambiguity, offering a space to linger in emotional gray zones where closeness and separation, understanding and misalignment, coexist.
Choi explores the unresolved spaces where complex emotions, cultural expectations, and personal identity intersect. Her forms trace the liminal terrain of human experience, capturing moments of transition, contradiction, and hesitation.
The exhibition features Choi’s tiles, murals, and figurative sculptures. The interaction of these forms is both reflective and directive. Layered surfaces, restrained expressions, and subtle asymmetries provoke physical and emotional engagement, inviting viewers to approach from multiple perspectives. With each shift in viewpoint, the works unfold differently, offering contemplative, tender or distant dispositions. This fluidity reflects how emotion is rarely fixed; instead, it moves, overlaps, and contradicts.
Though Choi’s work is grounded in personal experience as a Korean artist living in the United States, her sculptures resist linear narrative. Her practice reflects a continued negotiation between internal states and external structures, between self and society, memory and presence. Her figures do not perform; they pause, they glance. They withhold and in that withholding, they speak.
Photo by JSP Art Photography