While Still

In animation, stillness encounters time and becomes movement.
In painting, time encounters stillness and becomes a trace.
Lee Seunghoon’s monochrome paintings oscillate somewhere in between.

What he paints may not be the simple, ordinary objects before his eyes, but the countless moments of memory, experience, and time that arrived within him as he looked at them.
Time continues to flow, yet painting turns those moments, while they remain still, into symbols and signs.

My Romance

Few things carry the weight of thought as profoundly as what is inscribed upon the body.
Human history itself has been shaped through marks left on bodies, objects, and memory, allowing ideas to endure far beyond a single lifetime.
Yet the bodies in Kim Joon's work refuse the certainty of narrative. They do not tell stories of hardship or lived experience. Instead, they invite us to imagine another kind of body, one liberated from biography, suspended beyond time and place.
Whatever has been inscribed upon the skin no longer functions as evidence of a life once lived. It becomes a body capable of extraordinary elegance, quiet sensuality, and an almost romantic state of being.
Perhaps what Kim Joon ultimately reveals is not the story written on the body, but the limitless possibilities of the body as an image itself.

The Most Comfortable Place, There, a Shelter

Kim Donghyun’s paintings begin within today’s overwhelming world of endlessly reproduced and circulating images.
Rather than simply depicting nature, his landscapes become contemplative spaces where memory, time, myth, and cultural symbols overlap.
Echoing Bergson’s concept of duration, past experiences remain within the present, continuously reshaping what we see and remember.
Drawing upon traditional landscape painting, Kim transforms its structure into a contemporary space of thought.
Inverted mountains and reflected landscapes blur the boundaries between reality and illusion, original and reproduction.
Mythical figures and symbolic animals inhabit this unstable yet strangely compelling world.
Behind their spectacular appearances lies the fragility and emptiness of desires endlessly amplified by contemporary image culture.
Yet within this uncertainty, the landscape gradually becomes a place where memory and time can come to rest.
Kim’s paintings ultimately ask where our memories reside and where the place we most deeply wish to return to might be.
Perhaps somewhere within these layered landscapes, we may find there?a shelter of our own.

Crumple

Koo Nahyun reveals hidden narratives beyond the surface of a painting by crumpling a work that has already been completed. Through this act, what once appeared flat and clear is transformed, exposing another layer of meaning concealed beneath the image. The wrinkles and fractures that emerge across the surface are not mere traces of physical intervention; they embody accumulated memories, emotions, and moments of life that resist simple explanation.

Through these crumpled surfaces, the artist invites us to look beyond the images we thought we knew. Familiar scenes become unfamiliar landscapes, opening a space where overlooked relationships, forgotten memories, and alternative meanings of life gradually come into view. In this process, the painting shifts from a fixed image into a site of reflection, revealing the complexity of human experience hidden beneath appearances.

The Air We Share

Within the spaces of the city, countless emotions and relationships intertwine, like air endlessly drifting through unseen currents. These invisible feelings and connections inevitably become part of the atmosphere we share.

IM Jibin’s Bear Balloon briefly gives form to that invisible flow through a familiar presence.

The sudden appearance of a giant inflatable bear within the rigid texture of the city momentarily interrupts our accustomed urban rhythm.
Filled with the emotional air and relational breath of the city, The Air We Share becomes a sensory gesture of comfort for those of us living together within the same space, breathing the same air.