“It’s not text that I paint. I paint error. Because error is what makes us human.”
Jaeho Shin (b. 1988, Seoul, South Korea) is a London-based artist whose practice interrogates the intersections of logic, error, and human perception in the age of digital technology and AI. Working across painting, sculpture, installation, video, photography, and performance, Shin challenges rational structures by deliberately embracing the accidental and the illogical. His work explores the fragmentation of human values in the digital age, examining how technological mediation alters our understanding of self and reality. By incorporating preexisting materials and unconventional processes, Shin disrupts traditional artistic conventions, creating compositions that oscillate between abstraction and figuration. His unorthodox, highly experimental approach is rooted in a deep concern for the social, political, and existential conditions of contemporary life, using error as a means to expose the fallibility and subjectivity inherent in human experience and underscore the importance of humanity.
