{"id":9026,"date":"2023-05-12T15:00:40","date_gmt":"2023-05-12T13:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/svjmedia.nl\/internationaljournalism\/?p=9026"},"modified":"2023-05-12T15:05:45","modified_gmt":"2023-05-12T13:05:45","slug":"finding-a-sense-of-home-in-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/svjmedia.nl\/internationaljournalism\/9026\/finding-a-sense-of-home-in-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Finding a sense of home in art"},"content":{"rendered":"

Seulbin Roh has always struggled with the sense of belonging, causing her to find an outlet for her emotion within art. With naturalistic looking sculptures she now tackles topics such as psychological health and emotional vulnerability. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n

\u201cThis is our bar!\u201d says Seulbin Roh as she disappears through the closet that is standing at the end of the vast art studio located in the Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam. The closet has a big hole in its back and acts as a passageway to their improvised bar. An area that was originally designed to be a workspace was transformed into a place for drinks and hangouts. She stores some of her art there. A slight giggle is heard before the all-dressed in black Seulbin pops back out holding two large stick-looking figures, wrapped in shimmering bubble wrap. \u201cI\u2019ve been working on the subject of mental illness and psychological health now for many years and I question what is normal, who decides what\u2019s normal. I want to get rid of the stigma around this topic\u201d, she says while unwrapping her art.<\/p>\n

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Seulbin Roh is 27 years old and grew up in Frankfurt, Germany, in a South Korean household. Her parents come from an artistic background. Her father is an architect and her mother has a background in the fashion industry. By now her parents have gone back to South Korea and are living there in the countryside.<\/p>\n

Throughout her youth, Seulbin has been moving back and forth between Germany and South Korea. She then came to the Netherlands to study fine arts at HKU in Utrecht and is now doing her masters at the dirty art department at the Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam.<\/p>\n\n\n\t\t