Pleasing Harmony

As part of the ORF Long Night of Museums 2025

In her artistic practice, Hyeji Nam aims at nothing less than grasping life itself. The presence of captured moments unfolds into striking tonal experiences that address intimacy, taboos, beauty, and the human body’s relation to nature—almost entirely without words. They are affective spaces, devoid of pathos, which at times may even become uncomfortable. To engage with Nam’s singular, narration-free works means to adjust one’s own pulse and breath to a new rhythm and to open oneself to other streams of consciousness.

From the text by Andrea Kopranovic