ARTSY FOUNDATIONS

14 July - 8 August 2025 
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THE TAGLI is thrilled to announce its booth at Artsy Foundations 2025, showcasing a dual presentation featuring South Korean artist Heeyoung Noh and London-based artist Tom Woolner. This pairing creates a rich dialogue between surface and volume, past and present, corporeality and abstraction.

There is a stillness in these works. It is a quiet that does not seek to fill the space with meaning, but rather lets us attend to the sediment; histories, materials, gestures, that accumulate between body and surface.
HEEYOUNG NOH
Heeyoung Noh is a figurative painter who explores colonial trauma and diaspora by reproducing body images from South Korea. She received a B.A. from Sungshin Women’s University in Seoul in 2019 and an MFA at the Glasgow School of Art in Glasgow in 2024. Her practice entails a critical perspective toward diasporic identity and collective trauma as an Asian and Korean woman. She uses the female body's image as the main material to reinforce ethnic identity: the colour of skin and hair and the vestige of Ttaemiri, a Korean traditional way of bathing. She also explores the vanished stories of relationships between mothers and daughters in past generations through the feminist lens to highlight the collective and historical trauma inflicted by the state and patriarchal power.
 
TOM WOOLNER
Tom Woolner’s wall-based sculptures envision the body as a hybrid, combining anatomical and object-like forms to reveal the porous boundaries between the organic and the technological. This new work, made through an intuitive and playful process of pouring, piping and squidging, akin to cookery or amateur cake decorating, allows materials to take control at a molecular level, compressing and comingling into, rather than onto the surface. Made in reverse and partially blind, semi-viscous liquids slowly or rapidly congeal to agree upon a form that sits somewhere between painting, sculpture and fresco. These surfaces hang proud of the wall, as if excavated from a slice of agate or ancient tablet. They open portals into, and out of the body, to reveal alternative landscapes and a corporeal meteorology.
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