Yongjae Lee Chaek (a book), 2024 Oil on canvas
30.5 x 100.5 cm
12 1/8 x 39 5/8 inches

In In Chaek (2024), Yongjae Lee explores hwacheop (Joseon-dynasty painting albums), emulating the dry-brush (galpil) technique of master calligrapher Kim Jeong-hui (Chusa).

Having grown up without inherited paper artifacts due to his family losing their possessions in the Korean War, Lee fabricates a fictional heirloom that might have been passed down in an alternate past. Ultimately, he extends this personal act of myth-making into the future, presenting time as a single, continuous sequence.

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