Hwi Hahm: Desire for Clarification presents paintings that straddle abstraction and representation, relishing ambiguity and suspending comprehension. Working without preparatory sketches across series including "A Boy with Doubts" and "Disappearing Moments," Hahm builds geometric forms, abstracted structures, and landscapes that suggest human presence without defining it. Titles offer partial clues — an orange moon shifting a field of lines toward representation, a reference to Raoul De Keyser signaling borrowed shapes reimagined in new contexts. Raw, aggressive brushstrokes and bold colors give the work visceral force. As critic Gaby Cepeda writes, it is "a world of pleasurable jolts, puzzling dislocations, and representational bewilderment."
