Jinseok Choi is an interdisciplinary artist, educator, and organizer currently based in Los Angeles. His practice explores how larger socio-political structures shape the intimacy of everyday life and personal relationships via sculpture, installation, workshop, writing, and community-based projects. His work has been exhibited at venues including Komplex (Seoul, South Korea), ArtCenter College of Design (Los Angeles, CA), Human Resources Los Angeles (Los Angeles, CA), and Fellows of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, CA). He has participated in residencies and programs at Bemis Center (Omaha, NE), Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity (Banff, AB, Canada), UCROSS (Clearmont, WY),  Treasure Hill Artist Village (Taipei, Taiwan), and NEW INC (New York, NY). His grants include support from Fellows of Contemporary Art, the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, and CERF+. He co-founded MOTOR (Los Angeles, 2021-present), an artist-run initiative that supports voices outside the mainstream. choi holds an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts.

For this exhibition, Choi presents two works—Run Run and A Rose In/From/To You—as part of I Hear You Better With Noise.

I Hear You Better With Noise grows from Jinseok's experience of losing private exchanges with friends and colleagues. He reconstructs these erased conversations and memories as multisensory sculptures combining sound, vibration, and material, preserving what might otherwise disappear.

Recorded conversations with friends are abstracted beyond legibility and transformed into sculptural forms in combination with objects that hold personal significance within each relationship. Transducers installed in the works transmit sound by vibrating the sculptures themselves rather than projecting sound outward like conventional speakers. The density, thickness, size, and structure of each material shape these vibrations and create subtle differences in pressure and resonance. As a result, viewers experience sound not only through hearing but also through the body, moving beyond purely visual and linguistic forms of perception.

Rather than being presented as discrete sculptural objects, the works are installed in response to the architectural elements of the exhibition space. Viewers are encouraged to move slowly, approach the works, remain in proximity, and attend to subtle sounds and vibrations. Through resonance, duration, and shared spatial experience, relationships—between the artist and participants, the viewer and the work, and among viewers sharing the same space—are newly formed and experienced.

For Jinseok, art is not simply a means of representing or documenting what has disappeared. Instead, it becomes an alternative infrastructure through which relationships and memories that may be suppressed or erased by external forces can be preserved in other forms, felt again, and transmitted to others.

Through I Hear You Better With Noise, he asks whether relationships and memories can continue to exist through material and sensory experience even after their language and records have disappeared. In doing so, the work proposes the possibility of art extending beyond individual experience to reconnect people and offer new ways of preserving and sharing fragile memories and relationships.