Hezin O
BHLNTTTX
01 Apr 2024 - 01 Apr 2025
Post/No/Bills #5 — Hezin O — BHLNTTTX. Photo: Peter Tijhuis
Post/No/Bills #5 — Hezin O — BHLNTTTX. Photo: Peter Tijhuis
Post/No/Bills #5 — Hezin O — BHLNTTTX. Photo: Peter Tijhuis
Post/No/Bills #5 — Hezin O — BHLNTTTX. Photo: Peter Tijhuis
Post/No/Bills #5 — Hezin O — BHLNTTTX. Photo: Peter Tijhuis
Post/No/Bills #5 — Hezin O — BHLNTTTX. Photo: Peter Tijhuis
Post/No/Bills #5 — Hezin O — BHLNTTTX. Photo: Peter Tijhuis
Post/No/Bills #5 — Hezin O — BHLNTTTX. Photo: Peter Tijhuis
Graphic designer Hezin O throws all design rules overboard with the presentation BHLNTTTX. In the fifth edition of Post/No/Bills Hezin O fills the niches around the historic staircase with seven colorful wall prints. She challenges conventional notions of graphic design by completely deconstructing her previous works visually and audibly through cutting, repeating, and enlarging.
Hezin O aims to symbolically rearrange the existing hierarchy of graphic design. She develops her own grids, deviating from standard grids in design programs such as InDesign, thereby challenging the norm. She also deliberately pushes the boundaries of software by playing with glitches. These are unintended and often surprising errors that sometimes occur when editing images and sounds. Additionally, in the current era of razor-sharp images, she is fascinated by their polar opposite. She creates combinations of offset-printed images with high resolution and images with low resolution from the risograph or stencil machine.
The exhibition title BHLNTTTX embodies an alphabetical rearrangement that strips vowels from the words EXHIBITION TITLE. This mirrors the sense of disassembly and reconstruction inherent in Hezin O’s artistic process.
"I became interested in the error between input and output, and the possibility of imagination of the abstracted results. Since then, interest in abstraction has gradually expanded to interest in various medium units such as text, sound, space, as well as image resolution. When I think about it, graphic design seems to have some characteristics of abstraction in that it compresses or expresses a certain message, and I have always thought that it has a poetic aspect in that respect."
— Hezin O
Hezin O aims to symbolically rearrange the existing hierarchy of graphic design. She develops her own grids, deviating from standard grids in design programs such as InDesign, thereby challenging the norm. She also deliberately pushes the boundaries of software by playing with glitches. These are unintended and often surprising errors that sometimes occur when editing images and sounds. Additionally, in the current era of razor-sharp images, she is fascinated by their polar opposite. She creates combinations of offset-printed images with high resolution and images with low resolution from the risograph or stencil machine.
The exhibition title BHLNTTTX embodies an alphabetical rearrangement that strips vowels from the words EXHIBITION TITLE. This mirrors the sense of disassembly and reconstruction inherent in Hezin O’s artistic process.
"I became interested in the error between input and output, and the possibility of imagination of the abstracted results. Since then, interest in abstraction has gradually expanded to interest in various medium units such as text, sound, space, as well as image resolution. When I think about it, graphic design seems to have some characteristics of abstraction in that it compresses or expresses a certain message, and I have always thought that it has a poetic aspect in that respect."
— Hezin O