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Body Study
Untitled
Anima-in anima
We are living in a room
Self-portrait
Note
Change
The Wake of the Body




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Lim Won Ji (oneg) is an artist born and raised in South Korea. She earned her BFA in Ceramics & Glass from Hongik University, where she developed a material-based practice grounded in clay and glass. Through this training, she became deeply attentive to how materials respond to pressure, heat, gravity, and time.



She is currently pursuing an MFA in Sculpture at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), where she has expanded her practice to include a wider range of materials and processes. Her work investigates the human body not as a fixed form, but as a site of constant reaction—one that leaves subtle traces as it moves through space, encounters resistance, and responds instinctively before conscious thought.



Influenced by the idea that human existence is never complete or fully resolved, she considers the body as something continuously shaped by external forces rather than guided by a predetermined purpose. She is drawn to moments where intention breaks down and involuntary responses emerge, treating these moments as material evidence of being alive. Through sculpture, installation, and process-based experimentation, she explores traces that exist between presence and absence, fragility and structure, and permanence and erosion.



Education

2025 Hongik University BFA C&G

2027 SAIC MFA Sculpture


Group Exhibition 

2022 Undergraduate Exhibition, Seoul

2023 Undergraduate Exhibition, Seoul

2023 M.A.P Exhibition, Seoul

2024 Shio:ri Exhibition, Seoul

2024 Graduate Exhibition, Seoul

2025 In Forms of Becoming, Chicago

          
Solo Exhibition

2024 1st Solo Exhibition, Seoul





07.Change

2025


48*48*30 (in)
casting plaster, drain hole, wood pallete

Change begins with an interest in how the body instinctively assigns meaning and function to sculptural forms. The work resembles something familiar—a platform, a seat, a functional object—yet it consistently refuses use. What initially appears stable and supportive becomes ambiguous, holding the body in a state of hesitation.

Rather than offering clarity or resolution, the sculpture maintains a condition of suspension—between expectation and denial, utility and obstruction. Its repeated protrusions suggest bodily pressure and accumulation, while the elevated pallet-like base references systems of transport, storage, and institutional handling. These associations remain unsettled, never fully aligning with the viewer’s bodily expectations.

Within this space of refusal, meaning is not explained but sensed. The work invites a heightened bodily awareness shaped by uncertainty, where ambiguity functions as an active site of perception rather than a problem to be resolved.