Guan Han – Animaatio on kuin…
Studio Mustanapa 29.8. 2026 – 20.9.2026
This exhibition primarily features two of my previous hand-drawn animated works, alongside a selection of creative
manuscripts and original animation frames.
隅 Micromineme/4 mins/Mixed media
The theme of this animation is the “corner.” I made up the word “micromineme” to describe my consciousness as a small
corner of the consciousness shared by humanity.Beyond rational thought and sensory experience, I imagine this corner as
part of something much larger. This idea became the starting point of the film. Sounds from nature, my own whispered
poems, and readings in the voice of my alien lover drift into one another, forming a loose and fluid soundscape.
“Lead me from the unreal to the real, from darkness to light, from death to immortality.”
Inspired by the Pavamana Mantra, this movement from illusion toward awakening runs through the film. I made the
animation by hand, treating the process almost like my own version of Vipassana.
I think of time and space as illusions. When I become deeply immersed in nature, some of the things I usually believe in
begin to fall away. The body, with all its awkwardness and limitations, starts to feel like something from another world. It is a
small corner of chaos, and at the same time, a small corner of the universe—floating somewhere between the unconscious
and the possibility of awakening.As far back as I can remember, I have felt that I might contain every gender within me.
Sometimes I am an animal, sometimes a person. Sometimes I am a mountain or a river, sometimes a lake. Maybe I was a
lake in another life.And sometimes I catch a glimpse of myself somewhere in the future, bathing with the light, inside a quiet
and almost romantic dream.
飲⼈ Nominchu / 2 mins / Watercolor
The film begins with the familiar act of making coffee. Grinding, brewing, pouring—simple actions are repeated until coffee
becomes something more than a drink. It becomes a space where the body, desire, and the gaze begin to shift.
I use movement and transformation as the language of the film. Nothing stays in one form for long. As the coffee flows and
spreads, faces, eyes, hands, and plants appear, disappear, and turn into one another. A face becomes an eye. An eye
becomes a plant. A body breaks apart and takes another shape.I am interested in what happens to the self while growing
up: where it begins, where it ends, and how much of it belongs to us. We look at others, imagine them, desire them, and at
the same time become shaped by their gaze.
The coffee also moves between different roles. It can feed a plant, but it can also stain it. It can give life, but it can also
become something invasive. The line between care and possession, giving and taking, slowly disappears.
The film is built around this constant movement. The forms never settle into a final state, just as the self is never completely
fixed.Through coffee, bodies, plants, and shifting forms, Nominchu stays in the space between looking and being looked at,
between the self and the other.