OUM Jeongsoon (b. 1961) explores new possibilities of perception through her collaborations with visually impaired individuals. Since founding the non-profit art lab ‘Another Way of Seeing’ in 1996, she has pursued a sustained inquiry into the origins and essence of vision. This has resulted in a diverse body of work encompassing sculpture, painting, and publication. Her life-sized elephant sculptures, Elephant without Trunk, emerged from this conceptual shift. By presenting an elephant devoid of its most iconic feature—the trunk—the work compels viewers to confront the collapse of familiar perceptual frameworks and to question the assumptions that underpin our ways of seeing. From the void left by the absent form, fundamental questions begin to surface.

OUM’s efforts to subvert conventional modes of perception and to engage with non-human beings are also evident in her drawings and paintings. She contends that only by relinquishing anthropocentric perspectives can we begin to perceive the myriad forms of communication that have long eluded human awareness. By giving visual and material form to sensory exchanges that transcend human cognition, her practice seeks to recover a fundamental and universal gaze—one that reconsiders the status of all beings while challenging the ableist and human-centred structures of contemporary society.