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About the Artwork
In Super Isolation – Failure, Chanoh Heo drops a lone figure—part avatar, part boxer—into a surreal, symbolic environment alongside a stitched-up dog companion. Rendered in stark red against a flat green backdrop, the image vibrates with emotional dissonance. It’s not a literal dream, but the residue of living in a world where every perception is filtered through private, bodily experience.
This painting, like others in the Super Isolation series, captures the fragmented, isolating nature of being alive in a hyper-connected world. Referencing combat sports, gaming aesthetics, and internet iconography, Heo paints each figure as a player in their own unreachable universe—vivid, exposed, and alone.
About the Artist
Chanoh Heo (b. 1993, Busan, South Korea) is a multidisciplinary artist whose work shifts fluidly between painting, sculpture, video, and digital media. Raised amid rapid technological change from the 1990s to today, Heo embraces the transient, fractured nature of contemporary experience.
Currently based in Sacramento, CA, Heo’s practice explores the boundaries of communication, emotional isolation, and identity in digital and physical worlds. Across each series, he questions whether we can ever truly connect—or if we’re each living out a waking dream, shaped by sensation, memory, and media.
With bold, graphic brushwork and surreal narrative fragments, Heo’s works sit at the crossroads of expressionism, pop culture, and post-internet unease.