"OH NO I'M N★KED!" explores desire and sexuality through explicit self-portraiture of elastic range. By modifying and exaggerating her own figure, Ahn exposes the absurdity and instability of perfection as a state of being that can be procured, even the idealized female form isn’t enough, and isn't safe from the arduous process of revision.

The graphic nature of the work eludes all moral quandaries, and instead the viewer is left to their own devices, forced to reckon with their own inner compass–the most private negotiation of them all. It is the task of the beholder to parse through this tension between vulgarity and beauty, to find some compromise between what we regard as sanctified and profane, to confront the female form for what it is: a vision of terror and delight, and for good reason. Pornographic images are here to make a statement: no matter how much one thinks they possess an object, the reality is that the object possesses you.

Ahn paints her nude figure as a way of reclaiming her image; both the model and the painter, the object and the subject, Ahn explores what it means to see and be seen as a woman and a commodity, if such a distinction even exists at all. Her first solo show includes a shoe collection for Yume Yume SS23 and exclusive merchandise in collaboration with Terminal™

View and Shop the exhibition at Galerie Lulla. On view from April 7th to May 8th.