Herok

Herok on Scent and Ritual Korean artist Herok reflects on memory, process, and the rituals that shape his work. Through building and reworking each surface, his practice mirrors the way scent unfolds—slowly, intuitively, and in layers. In conversation with ELOREA, he shares his personal rituals and the fragrance that resonates most with him. Watch the full interview on our YouTube channel.

• Studio • Place • Work • Creation • Return • Self • Discovery • Interiority • Time • Accumulation • Trace • Memory • Sensation • • • • • I’ll put it back the way it was before I used it.

Always in process. Back to studio from the park.

Strata of Time Detail from the exhibition On view at Elorea, Soho

[Whisper: Salon Artist Interview Ep.1 HEROK @herok ] NY-based multidisciplinary artist HEROK moves between painting + installation, building layered surfaces through a physical process of scraping, rebuilding, and repeating. Hanji, tissue paper, acrylic, oil, house paint—materials accumulate like time itself. 🎨 Spaces of physical activity become sensory fields—where communication moves beyond language and into the body. Experience his work at WHISPER, reSOUND. New episodes every Friday. Stay tuned.

Strata of Time Herok | Solo Exhibition Now on view at the ELOREA New York Flagship. A reflection on time, memory, and the way stories unfold through layers. Working with hanji and paint, Herok builds and reveals each surface through a process of accumulation and removal, where what remains is shaped by what came before. This dialogue continues through scent. Like his work, fragrance evolves gradually, layer by layer, revealing memory and emotion over time. On view through June 30.

When I first came across Herok’s (@herok )work via @civilart.nyc , it stopped me—not just visually, but spiritually. There was something in the texture, the layering, the boldness—a refusal to be quiet—that felt like the same language I’d been trying to write my way toward. The Holy Ghost Lives in Her Laugh has always been about presence, about the sacred showing up in unexpected places: in grief, in memory, in the women who raised us, in the laughter that survives what should have broken us. I knew the cover couldn’t just represent the book—it had to hold it. So I reached out not with a fully formed vision, but with a feeling—fragments, language, pulse—and what Herok created wasn’t just a cover, but an interpretation of spirit, a translation of breath into image, a visual altar. This is what happens when art meets art with honesty, when you trust someone with the intangible. I’m grateful for this collaboration—for the care, the intention, the way this cover doesn’t just introduce the book…it speaks before I do. Pre-order link in bio! 🖤🙏🏽 #poetry #poetrycommunity #poetofinstagram

🎂 Best birthday 🐏

Just shared a conversation about my work and process on CanvasRebel. Link in bio.

Process, Close-up shot Work note: In the repetition of accumulating and revealing, the surface is no longer a mere result, but becomes a field where time and action collide, leaving behind their traces.

Out of Field 4, 2026, Acrylic, house paint, hanji paper, toilet paper on canvas 30*30inches. Out of Field 4 is currently on view at @elorea in SoHo as part of Strata of Time, a solo exhibition.

STRATA OF TIME is currently on view in New York — a solo exhibition at @elorea in SoHo, running for three months.