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H-flux Gallery is delighted to present “ Good Luck, Babe,” a solo exhibition by New York–based Korean artist Tai Hea Goh, open from July 9 to August 16. This marks the artist’s second solo exhibition in Korea and her first in 13 years. Through print-based installations that weave together memory, sensation, and imagination, the artist manifests a fantastical garden indoors, simultaneously natural and artificial. Goh studied Western painting at Seoul National University where she also earned her MFA in printmaking. After moving to the United States, she continued her studies in printmaking and sculpture at the University of Maryland. Her practice involves labor-intensive processes of printing on Korean hanji or translucent Pellon fabric, then cutting, folding, and layering these prints to create paper sculptures. These are then combined with random objects or litter found in her neighborhood and organically arranged throughout the exhibition space to resemble a dreamlike garden. Regarding this exhibition, the artist states, “The exhibition "Good Luck, Babe" visualizes points of tension between nature’s organic progress and artificial structures. Working with plants - ordinary yet deeply meaningful to me - that I have encountered in daily life and during my travels, I explore the intersection of memories and present sensations shaped by experience.” The exhibition was inspired by the artist’s attempt to find a four-leaf clover for her daughter—when she couldn’t find one, she made one herself instead. Her works resemble familiar forms of nature that we often encounter in everyday life, but they do not represent nature itself. Rather, they are 'inner gardens'—reconstructed depictions of nature, sensorially rearranged using images from the artist’s memory. In this imaginary space, where a heartfelt wish for her daughter’s happiness comes to life, new realities and sensations are generated. After graduating from university in Korea and relocating to Maryland, USA, the artist was inspired by the flowers and trees she encountered during her daily walks with her dog in a foreign environment. Her work is also infused with memories of her childhood—particularly the landscape paintings collected by her father, through which she used to imagine fairytale-like stories. In addition, the influence of Hayao Miyazaki’s animated films, which she loved as a child, contributes to the dreamlike and hypersensory nature of her installations. The exotic atmosphere and candy-like colors in her work evoke an artificially sweet fantasy, even more vivid than reality. The resulting installations can be described as a fantastical paper garden—an inner landscape shaped by the artist’s memories and the lingering hues of a distant past.