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
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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.Top Updated - 30.03.2026thereisyesfuture@gmail.com