In Other Words, a two-person exhibition organized by Philadelphia-based artist and curator Guava Rhee, opened at Grizzly Grizzly on September 4 and runs through November 1, 2026. It brings together Rachel Hsu, a Philadelphia-based artist working in video and sculpture, and Eunhoo Jo, a Seoul-based artist who works under the name zozo.
“What gets brushed aside or ruled inadmissible doesn’t disappear,” Rhee says. “It moves somewhere else. Into the effort it takes to read something. That’s what I wanted the show to be about.” She organized the exhibition for Grizzly Grizzly, a nonprofit artist collective based in Philadelphia.
Hsu’s SWEET NOTHINGS (FEAST YOUR EYES) (2023) is a wall of letters molded in sugar and fixed directly to the wall on the right as you come in, arranged in the descending rows of an eye chart. The text runs you love to feast your eyes you feast you love to feast, and like an eye chart the rows shrink line by line until reading it becomes an effort. Up close the letters have the grain and shine of a sugar cube. An eye chart measures the person looking, not the thing looked at, and here what it measures you against is a sweet phrase.
“The first thing you see is a test you can’t pass,” Rhee says. “Both of these works are about the limits of looking, and I wanted the room to put you inside that before you read anything.”
Jo’s Ghost Stenographer (2026) hangs around the room, ten meters of washed cotton drawn in ink, suspended from a line of points near the ceiling so that it swags and folds across three walls. Visitors are free to lift the folds and open them out.
The largest text on the cloth reads 그동안 감사했습니다, thank you for all this time, taken from a sign left on a shuttered shop. Behind it is the ceiling of a makgeolli brewery that stopped running years ago. Jo builds the drawing from photographs she takes in abandoned lots and emptied buildings in and around Seoul, hand-painting them into a single continuous surface. She calls this way of working forensic drawing. The drawing works on memory that won’t hold a consistent shape in speech but is still held in the body.
Rhee met Jo while organizing WalgadaKan Good, Ssalon, a concurrent exhibition in Seoul and Los Angeles (2024), and went to her solo show afterward. “She handles very different materials with the same confidence, and the language in the work is intricate without being decorative,” Rhee says. Rhee has known Hsu through her own practice, which she runs under the name project ieerie, and had wanted to show her work for some time. “Rachel works on language and diaspora in a way I keep returning to. I had been waiting for the right room for it,” Rhee says.
The pairing came before the theme. “One work asks you to read something you can’t quite read. The other takes a memory that can’t be spoken and moves it into paint. Once I saw them as two demands rather than two subjects, the room made sense.”
The show was originally set to close in September, but was extended so that it could take part in Collective Futures, a citywide festival of Philadelphia’s artist-run spaces running October 2 through November 15. Grizzly Grizzly member Giulia Livi worked with Rhee on the exhibition and led the connection to the festival. “Bringing the show into Collective Futures meant rebuilding the run, and Guava was willing to do that,” Livi says. “It’s a better show with two months.”
As with every Grizzly Grizzly exhibition, the show is accompanied by a commissioned text in the collective’s Speak Speak program, written this time by Nina Huang. The text is published as a zine, launched at the gallery on First Friday, October 2.
Rhee was born in Daegu, South Korea, and has lived and worked in Philadelphia since 2024. She is a Lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania, where she teaches 3D computer modeling and animation, and has been a member of Grizzly Grizzly since 2025. The collective, founded in 2009, is unusual among artist-run spaces in that its members curate other artists’ work rather than exhibiting their own.
In Other Words is on view at Grizzly Grizzly, 319 N. 11th Street, 2nd Floor, Philadelphia, through November 1, 2026. Gallery hours are Saturday and Sunday, from 2 to 6 PM, and by appointment.
Eunhoo Jo’s Ghost Stenographer was supported by the K-Art Young Creators Support Program, an initiative of Korea’s Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, Arts Council Korea, and the Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture.
In Other Words, curated by Guava Rhee | Where: Grizzly Grizzly, 319 N. 11th Street, 2nd Floor, Philadelphia — When: September 4 – November 1, 2026