THIS IS NO FANTASY

THIS IS NO FANTASY is a boutique gallery offering representation to a select group of artists shaping Australia’s art discourse locally and internationally. Resolutely committed to keeping our gallery small and rigorously curated, the gallery draws on decades of experience to strategically champion artists, building their profiles internationally. Central to our vision is a focus on international art fairs, off-site projects and exhibitions both in Australia and abroad. THIS IS NO FANTASY is proud to share the work of Haji Oh at this year’s Paris Photo Art Fair. ‘Grand-Mother Island Project’, is an immersive installation by Haji Oh, winner of the Tokyo Contemporary Art Award 2024. Employing cyanotype, photography and hand-woven textiles, Oh reframes traditional materials and methods, imbuing her artworks with memory, place, and identity. Her practice distils her upbringing as a third-generation Zainichi Korean raised in Japan, migrating to Australia in 2014, and draws on her family’s relocation from Jeju Island to Japan in 1930. Her work shifts seamlessly between the personal and global, memories of ancestors are reimagined and carried into the future. She reflects on the importance of intergenerational storytelling as a means of interpreting history. Through her labour-intensive processes of weaving, unravelling, and printing, Oh explores the three-dimensional space of memory.