Enseoul presents Unfake Fantasy, a solo exhibition by Yang-ha. Working across painting, sculpture and installation, the artist examines how catastrophe and the everyday coexist through what she terms “unfake” fantasy.
The exhibition centres on pastel-toned paintings in which explosions and scenes from ordinary life recur. News imagery, fireworks, clouds at dusk, branches and flowers by a window appear within contained, box-like spaces. Each painting functions as a sealed compartment: an event suspended in time. Nothing collapses or exceeds its frame. Seen together, the works resemble a cabinet of simultaneous incidents. Explosions sit alongside fragments of daily life within an ordered structure. Each moment is held, replayed and contained.
Rendered in soft pastel hues and flattened forms, the explosions are disarming. By aestheticising catastrophe, Yang-ha exposes how readily tragedy becomes spectacle. Her visual language moves between irony and restraint, where cartoon-like imagery meets abstraction. Humour acts as both defence and critique, preventing melodrama while avoiding detachment. Tragedy and the everyday remain intertwined.
In Unfake Fantasy, fantasy is not escape but a tool. It questions what seems certain and shows how quickly emotion fades. The exhibition leaves this tension unresolved.
