GROUP EXHIBITION

Eunsil Lee explores a society where instincts and desires are taboo and concealed through the use of traditional Korean painting materials and techniques. Lee metaphorically represents the fragmentation of individuals and the disintegration of family or social communities in an oppressive society through twisted spaces, parts of bodies or organs, and exaggerated and distorted animal forms. The artist explores points of conflict and contradiction, attempting to rethink society through suggestive images.

Jinn Bronwen Lee’s oil paintings on irregularly shaped elliptical or arched canvases filled with dark colours and textures are a response to various aspects of the external world, from music to physical experiences. For the artist, who believes balance can only be found through deviation and decomposition, painting is a vessel, in which existential processes are accommodated and fermented. The artist describes her process of approaching the unknown and embracing uncertainty as ‘flipping over stones in a swampy forest’ to see what she might find.

Hyunwoo Lee discovers new aesthetic value in isolated parts of natural objects, such as a turtle’s shell or a rhinoceros beetle’s head, viewing them as independent visual entities. He repeatedly deconstructs, combines, and overlays these parts with other materials, thereby eliminating conventional values and standards and horizontally positioning them as forms of matter. By reversing established causality and plausibility, he explores the essence of existence through a visual experience that redefines the perception of objects

Jin Han attempts to visualise states that are not visible to the naked eye through meticulous drawings and multi-layered oil paintings. For the artist, ‘sound’, which is sensed when time and physical space collide and waves undulate, is a crucial element. Jin Han uses her unique sound waves to scan the unseen cracks and surfaces of the world. The canvases, filled with roughness and smoothness, regularity and irregularity, may appear strange and abstract, but the artist asserts that a clear subject is present.