K-Queer: Intimacies of the Invisible

[K-QUEER] Intimacies of the Invisible | Kim HwaHyun solo exhibition

South Korean artist, Kim HwaHyun is flying to Liverpool from Seoul to open her solo exhibition and give an artist talk at The Royal Standard in Liverpool on Saturday 24th January 2026.

Kim HwaHyun creates a universe where East and West, past and present, and sacred and secular converge through her signature androgynous male figures.

Rejecting fixed binaries, she embraces hybridity, combining dongyanghwa (traditional East Asian ink and polychrome painting) with the visual language of Japanese shōjo manga from the 1950s onwards and Korean sunjeong manhwa (female-centric comics/graphic novels), which came into their own genre by the late 1980s onwards.

Using historically resonant materials such as agyo binders, hanji (traditional Korean paper), ink, and mineral pigments, Kim transforms canonical forms into vibrant scenes of charged queer male bodies.

For further information: https://www.k-queer.org