What Remains: Bohyeon Hwang & Sanghyuk Kim

Enseoul presents What Remains, a duo exhibition of new works by Bohyeon Hwang and Sanghyuk Kim. Opening during Amsterdam Art Gallery Night on Friday 5 September, the exhibition explores incompleteness and asks whether wholeness, as we imagine it, exists at all.

Both artists begin from the idea that essence is found not in perfection but in fracture, absence, and transformation. By stripping away ideals projected onto object and figure, Hwang and Kim examine what endures once completeness is dismantled.

Bohyeon Hwang’s paintings reject utility, turning instead to overlooked states and gestures—objects breaking or fading, or simple acts such as peeling the skin of an apple. In her canvases, incompleteness becomes renewal.

Sanghyuk Kim extends this enquiry to the human body and beyond, lifting figures and objects out of their usual contexts. From dissected bodies to burning buildings and algae, his works reveal fragility and distortion as elemental rather than defective. By peeling back surface ideals, Kim locates essence in rupture and vulnerability.

Together, the artists frame incompleteness as fertile ground rather than lack. What Remains proposes that only by dismantling the illusion of perfection can we approach a deeper, more plural understanding of existence.