Profile
Sanha (KR) is a designer working at the intersection of social design, material exploration, and sensory storytelling. She is temporarily based in the Netherlands and studying at Design Academy Eindhoven (NL).
Her practice focuses on working in proximity — engaging closely with people, communities, and lived situations. Through site-specific research and iterative processes such as workshops, conversations, and recordings, she explores how relationships, emotions, and social structures can be sensed and translated into material and spatial forms.
Working across sound, installation, and participatory formats, Sanha develops projects that do not aim to represent reality as a whole, but to hold onto its fragments. Her work often deals with the atmosphere of communities, the temporality of shared spaces, and the tension between personal experience and broader socio-political conditions.
By treating design as an ongoing negotiation rather than a fixed outcome, her practice creates situations for engagement — inviting others to encounter, reflect, and reposition themselves within complex social realities.
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Education
Design Academy Eindhoven (NL)
Social Design
2025 - Now
Ewha Womans University (KR)
Visual Communication Design
2018 - 2024
Selected Exhibitions
How Does Community Sound Like?
Naastbeek, Eindhoven
2026
Post Mortem of Knowing
Rewild Farming, Eindhoven
2026
Exploration of Voices
Loadout, Seoul
2024
Invisible Shelter
Ewha Womans University, Seoul
2023
Media Art for Korean Language Day
COEX Media Tower, Seoul
2021
Writings
“Prayer for Peace: A Puzzle”
sssssssslim Literature Magazine
2023
“Ways of Reading” (Co-authored)
Extra Archive 5, Korean Society of Design History
2022
“Two Interviews about Queer Labeling”
Ewha Byunnal Zine
2024 AboutSelected Works
Sanha Park
I work through proximity — entering spaces, staying, listening, and building relationships over time.Materials are not tools but counterparts; they stretch, resist,
and respond.I am interested in what shifts — identities, bodies, and the fragile structures that hold them together. Ecology of Identities (2025)
Material
Material as a living entity —
responsive, unstable, and relational.
Body
The body as a porous structure —
constantly shaped, read, and reconfigured.
Morphing Identity
Identity as something that shifts —
formed through time, contact, and transformation.
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Installation with two-channel video
Latex, knitting, bent metal, steel mesh, acrylic
Hanging structure, movable elements
0.10.20.30.40.5
Ecology of Identities approaches identity as an unstable and relational condition, shaped through material interactions.
Working with latex as a membrane — a surface that both connects and separates — the project explores how bodies and identities are formed through processes of layering, tension, and transformation.
Drawing from auto-ethnographic reflection, the work considers queerness not as a fixed state but as something continuously negotiated through perception, time, and material change.
The installation brings together organic and industrial materials, allowing them to stretch, resist, and deform one another — forming a body that is never complete, but always becoming.How Does Community Sound Like? (2026)
Proximity
Working in proximity —
spending time, building trust, and entering the community from within.
Collective Sound
Sound as a shared medium —
capturing fragments of everyday life, memory, and presence.
Translation
From lived experience to installation — translating relationships into spatial and sonic form.
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Video ↗
Collaboration with Eva Van Der Hoek, Lou-Anne Manceau, and Sarah Bezy
Sound installation and relational mapping
Audio recordings, interviews, workshop materials, map with Eikenburg social housing residents
Exhibition at Rewild Farming(2026)
Exhibition at Naastbeek(2026)
Thanks to whom we talked
: Michael, Leo, Bram, Astrid, Joos, Raymond, Linda, Bart, Jennifer, Patricia, Drei, Maria, Will, Alan, Joost, Suzanne, Karin, Jamie, Petra, Mara, Marian, Lisette, and all the others
Again thanks to lovely musicians
: Raymond, Karin, Jamie, Jennifer
0.10.20.30.40.5How Does Community Sound Like? explores how a community can be sensed and understood through sound.
Developed in collaboration with residents of social housing community in Eikenburg, the project began with long-term engagement — attending gatherings, building relationships, and participating in everyday activities.
Through workshops, conversations, and recordings, fragments of voices, ambient sounds, and shared moments were collected. Rather than representing the community as a fixed entity, the project embraces its complexity, diversity, and incompleteness.
These fragments were translated into a spatial sound installation and a relational map, offering an open-ended experience of what a community can feel like — not as a whole, but as a constellation of encounters.
Everyday Politics (2026)
Everyday Politics
Politics not as distant institutions,
but as something embedded in everyday decisions, spaces, and conversations.
Collective Voices
Personal experiences and memories as political expressions— shared, written, and negotiated collectively.
Mediation
Design as a mediator —
framing, translating, and exposing hidden structures of power.
Video ↗Workshops, writing, printed cards, spatial installation
Developed through workshops and conversations with Korean participants
0.10.20.30.40.5Everyday Politics investigates how political conditions are experienced and negotiated through everyday life.
The project emerged from a sense of failure — questioning whether conventional forms of graphic design can meaningfully engage with contemporary situations.
Through conversations with Korean participants, I encountered hesitation and difficulty in speaking about politics.
In response, I developed a participant-specific system of question cards, based on personal experiences shared during the first round of interviews. Each participant was presented with tailored questions reflecting their own concerns and narratives. Participants could choose which questions to respond to, deciding what to share and what to withhold.
This project takes the form of a propositional framework, combining workshops, recorded conversations, and a podcast format as possible structures for facilitating daily basis political dialogue.
Rather than aiming for a fixed outcome, it explores how design can create conditions for participation — where fragmented voices reveal how political realities are lived, resisted, and reinterpreted.
Exploration of Voices (2024)
Sound / Voice / Legal Text
Legal documents are treated as material —
recorded, fragmented, and re-voiced through participants.
Participatory Reading
Visitors record and layer their voices,
turning reading into a collective and embodied act.
Reframing Authority
Legal language is disrupted and reconfigured, shifting from fixed judgment to contested interpretation.
Video ↗Interactive installation, website, and sound interface
HTML, CSS, Node.js, audio recording system
Participatory installation with recording booth
0.10.20.30.40.5Exploration of Voices examines how legal language constructs and reinforces power structures, particularly in the context of digital sex crime cases in South Korea.
The project departs from the observation that judicial systems often prioritize perpetrator-centered narratives, resulting in lenient sentencing and the marginalization of victims’ experiences.
Rather than presenting legal documents as fixed and authoritative, this work reconfigures them as material for collective interpretation.
Through a participatory installation and a sound-based interface, visitors are invited to read, record, and layer fragments of court verdicts. These overlapping voices disrupt the stability of legal language, transforming it into a dynamic and contested field.
By shifting the act of reading into an embodied and shared experience, the project explores how meaning, authority, and responsibility can be redistributed.
Ultimately, the work proposes an alternative mode of engagement with legal systems through participation, fragmentation, and re-voicing.Top Updated - 30.03.2026thereisyesfuture@gmail.com