Chaeyeon Ghymn


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  1. Liminal Invasion
  2. The Ant Colony
  3. The Exiles
  4. The Illusion of Freedom
  5. Edges of Arrival
  6. The (Complete) Metamorphosis
  7. Adopt Your Moth!!





The Exiles
2025











The Exiles

240 x 240(mm/piece)
Drypoint on Paper, Plywood

Various Size
Silkscreen and UV print on fabric

540 x 280(mm)
Acrylic paint, Acrylic marker on wood

2025 This work uses the metaphor of a moth depict the fate of the exiled other caught in the trap of illusion. Moths, with their innate phototavtic instinct to fly towardd their coexistence with humans. As a result, they are lured not by the true sun, but by an artificial one―a “false sun”―and ultimately caught in the trap of an insect killer.

Streetlights burn disoriented moths without hesitation, and insect traps lure them with deceptive light only to electrocute them. Removed from their natural context, these moths become unwelcomed others. Their otherness in not merely a mistake, but the final snare that awaits the exiled.

This is not just the story of insects. In human society, individuals who are inconvenient, unfamiliar, of who challenge the existing order are also frequently “managed” or “precessed.” The systems they face appear open in the surface, but in reality, are filled with thresholds only through chosen few can cross. For the other. These boudaries are not invitations―they are traps.