Pursuing the “precisely ambiguous,” Ro abstracts everyday objects, like paper packing trays or a dining table, from their original context and function to call attention to both their formal qualities as well as the emotional weight they can hold.

This documentary short (Hyeree Ro's Precise Ambiguity) follows the artist as she mines memories of road trips with her father and processes his recent passing through a new work, "Niro" (2024).

Hyeree Ro was born in 1987 in Seoul, South Korea and currently lives between Seoul and Brooklyn, NY. Learn more about the artist at: art21.org/hyereero

Explore other Art21 films in the "New York Close Up" series: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL70298B8E028D372C

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CREDITS
Director & Producer: Andrea Yu-Chieh Chung
Executive Producer: Tina Kukielski
Series Producer: Nick Ravich
Editor: Yeon Park
Cinematography: Jane Macedo Yang
Sound: Pasquin Mariani, Fivel Rothberg
Associate Curator: Jurrell Lewis
Color Correction: Max Blecker
Sound Design & Mix: Micah Garrido
Design & Graphics: Chips
Music: Yotam Agam, Geoff Bremner, Ida Jo, Melancholicks
Assistant Editor: Michelle Hanks
Artwork Courtesy: Hyeree Ro
Archival Media: Jaepil Eun, Merik Goma, Sungmoo Heo, Sangtae Kim, Swan Park
Thanks: Canal Projects, Summer Guthery, Caroline Shehan

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"New York Close Up" is made possible with support from Patricia Ryan and Andrew Farnsworth, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the Every Page Foundation, public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, the Henry Nias Foundation, and individual contributors.

TRANSLATIONS
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