Hello, my name is Seungyeon (Tami) Han. I am from Busan, South Korea, and I am currently based in Vancouver, on the unceded lands of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations.
I am a freelance art curator who runs the curatorial platform Lecheztamtam, and I am also the founder of the art collective Nomado Art House. Our team organizes artist-run exhibitions to support artists—especially local artists—by providing accessible venues such as cafés and galleries to showcase their work.
I am also a painter who is more interested in depicting what cannot be seen rather than what can be seen. This interest led me to become deeply engaged with how the human mind works, particularly how our perception is flawed and easily warped. This way of thinking closely parallels my curatorial process when developing exhibition concepts. My work has explored themes such as the unconscious realm of the human mind; simple, joyous emotions juxtaposed with melancholic or depressive moods; warm, summer-like optimism contrasted with the gloomy emotions often associated with “Raincouver”; and feelings of entrapment, confusion, or hopelessness within societal systems.
In particular, my painting practice has focused on how memory functions. Through my personal experience, I have dealt with fragmented memories for a long time due to weak working memory, which has affected my short-term memory. Rather than interpreting these experiences as symptoms, I chose to view them in a non-linear and aesthetic way. This perspective inspired my use of fragmented collage-based styles, though I aim to partially move away from descriptive depictions.
The idea of fragmentality also led me to explore other topics, such as manipulation and gaslighting, from a broader societal perspective. I am especially interested in the concept of the “gap” that emerges within fragmented memories—how, depending on who inserts their opinions or narratives into these gaps, new meanings and phenomena can arise. This curiosity has further drawn me to examine the space between belief systems, dogma, and stubbornness, particularly as they manifest through chaotic repetition, coercion, and rigidity.