Storm Hunter

SANSHANG + VOL.8 丨 [Storm Hunter] Jin Han

SANSHANG + VOL.8 Issue: SANSHANG Contemporary Art Gallery presents artist Jin Han's latest solo exhibition "Storm Hunter," featuring works from the exhibition's namesake series "Storm Hunter," "Star Map," and "Journal of Wild ," among others. The exhibition will run until July 20.

After over six months of preparation, this exhibition underwent more than a dozen rounds of discussions and refinements from finalizing the dates to its ultimate presentation. It represents the artist's latest interpretation of the core concept "Ether" in their work. Through the extraction and reimagining of the "meteorological" element, the artist created a groundbreaking painting installation that transcends flat space, presenting a nearly 12-meter-long vortex-themed wind array in the form of a screen.

Jin Han's creative approach is highly logical and research-oriented, with his works' narrative threads serving as both an exploration of science, archaeology, literature, history, and anthropology, as well as a subjective misinterpretation of these fields. The rational "misinterpretation" is his stance toward the world, much like his frequent assertion that "ignorance is romantic.".

From a certain perspective, every artist possesses hidden multifaceted identities. In Jin Han, we seem to see a detective-like approach to work. He appears to be deeply persistent in his pursuit of the elusive "Red Star," connecting his perceptions and knowledge of the surrounding world with logical threads to form endless red lines, enriching and filling his creative trail map.

Autobiography:

My painting creation revolves around the concept of "Ether" from early European philosophy, which I self-interpret and connect to form my envisioned star map of painting. "Ignorance is romantic"—I aim to freeze time onto the canvas through a transcendent, time-traveling experience. Recent works layer judgments on science, stories, fallacies, curiosity, and conformity. The resulting imagery, after repeated layering and intense color accumulation, features pure hues beneath a grainy grayscale—much like the frescoes of Pompeii buried under volcanic ash, perhaps symbolizing that only vitality refined through elimination appears vivid and enduring. Phenomena such as lightning, volcanoes, hurricanes, and deserts break free from the constraints of time and space, existing in diverse forms both at the birth and demise of a planet. These charged, symbolic elements continuously solidify, stack, accumulate, and arrange within my painted caves, forming a "safehouse" for our current digital-virtual era.