Harper’s is pleased to announce Peripheral Sight, a three-person presentation of painting and mixed media works by Laura Benson, Ho Jae Kim, and Marin Majić. The exhibition opens Thursday, June 25, 6–8pm, at Harper’s Chelsea 512.
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Stories begin where certainty ends.
Long before maps were complete and logic was named, humans filled unknown territories with myths and worlds populated by monsters and spirits. These inventions were not failures of knowledge but attempts to live alongside uncertainty—to give shape to what could not yet be understood.
The works gathered in Peripheral Sight inhabit a similar space. Across painterly works, Laura Benson, Ho Jae Kim, and Marin Majić explore the ways images carry us toward things that remain just beyond comprehension. Narratives, archetypes, and wandering forms become tools for navigating the distance between experience and understanding.
Kim's paintings explore the unstable relationship between observation and interpretation. Referencing literary, philosophical, and allegorical traditions, he constructs images in which perception itself becomes the subject. Familiar figures and narratives reemerge in altered forms, inviting viewers to consider how knowledge is shaped by memory, association, and inherited ways of seeing. Kim’s works exist between the seen and unseen, where meaning remains open, unstable, and ever-changing.
For Benson, storytelling serves as a method of inquiry. Drawing from folklore, mythology, and personal narrative, she creates intimate works that pursue the elusive nature of meaning itself. Found materials and handcrafted processes become gateways through which ancient archetypes encounter contemporary questions. Her works acknowledge that uncertainty cannot be conquered, only approached.
Majić's paintings offer landscapes of passage. Caverns open onto distant horizons, interiors dissolve into atmosphere, and familiar environments become dreamlike terrains. His works suggest that discovery is not a destination but a continual movement toward something that remains partially hidden.
The exhibition's title evokes the threshold of vision, where forms first emerge and likewise, where they dissolve from view. Peripheral sight is not the clarity of direct observation but the awareness of possibility; it speaks to the sensation that something is present just beyond the reach of perception—just beyond what can be grasped.
For Benson, Kim, and Majić alike, meaning arrives through information gathered outside the point of fixation. What remains unseen is not empty, rather, it is the point from which imagination begins.
Laura Benson (b. 1997, Birmingham, AL) received an MFA from University of Colorado, Boulder, and a BFA from University of Alabama, Birmingham. Her work has been the subject of solo presentations at Room 412, Birmingham (2025); The Valley, Taos (2024); and Tertulias, Boulder (2023). Most recently, Benson has participated in group exhibitions at NADA, New York (2026 and 2025); DES BAINS, London (2026); IRL Gallery, New York (2025); Soho Revue, London (2025); and The Social Club, Los Angeles (2024). Reviews of her work have appeared in Artnet, ArtMaze, and Taos News. Benson lives and works in Birmingham.
Ho Jae Kim (b. 1993, Seoul, South Korea) received a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design in 2016. Kim’s work has been the subject of solo and two-person presentations at Uffner & Liu, New York (2025); GANA art, Seoul (2024); Harper’s, New York (2024, 2023, and 2021); Nicodim Gallery, Los Angeles (2023); and Sotheby’s, New York (2018). Most recently, he has participated in group exhibitions at Harper’s, New York, Los Angeles, and East Hampton (2026, 2024, 2023, 2022, and 2021); Latitude Gallery, New York (2026); David Castillo Gallery, Miami (2024); Canal Projects, New York (2023); Nicodim Gallery, Los Angeles (2023); NEXX Asia, Taipei (2023); and Christie's, New York (2022 and 2020). Kim’s work has been acquired by the collections of JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, and X Museum, Beijing. He lives and works in New York City.
Marin Majić (b. 1979, Frankfurt, Germany) studied at the Academy of Visual Arts, Zagreb. Most recently, his work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Nino Mier, Los Angeles and New York (2026, 2023, and 2021); Center of International Contemporary Art, Vancouver (2025); Megan Mulrooney Gallery, Los Angeles (2024); Galerie ISA, Mumbai (2020); and Marc Strauss Gallery, New York (2016 and 2013). Majić’s work has been included in group exhibitions at institutions, including Harper’s, New York (2024); Grimm Gallery, New York (2024); 1969 Gallery, New York (2024); Nino Mier Gallery, Los Angeles and New York (2023 and 2021); and Knoxville Museum of Art, TN (2021). Majić’s work is held in the public collections of the Knoxville Museum of Art, and X Museum, Beijing. He lives and works in Brooklyn.