"Red Time" Painting

I am an artist who explores time, space, and the traces of memory and emotion accumulated within them through painting. In my work, time and space are not simply physical settings, but flows in which experiences, emotions, and unconscious perceptions are layered over time.

I have long been interested in symbolic and narrative images that have been repeatedly passed down across generations, including mythology, classical sculpture, legends, fairy tales, and geometric forms. These images appear familiar and beautiful, yet their meanings continuously shift depending on the era and context. Rather than reproducing them as they are, I fragment, reconstruct, and rearrange them, inviting viewers to experience familiar scenes from an unfamiliar perspective.

A central concept in my work is the transformation of perspective. I aim to encourage viewers to reconsider objects, emotions, and memories that are often taken for granted. The layered surfaces and material textures within my paintings function as traces of accumulated time and emotion, leading viewers beyond the image itself toward the atmosphere and memories hidden beneath the surface.

In my process, I combine a variety of materials including stone powder, pigments, acrylic, oil paint, pastel, and charcoal. Through repetition and layering, the painted surface becomes similar to a geological layer of memory, creating condensed visual structures shaped by time.

In recent works, I have expanded beyond the fixed viewpoint of traditional painting by incorporating shaped canvases and modular installations. These works create spatial experiences in which meaning shifts according to the viewer’s movement and gaze.

Ultimately, my work seeks to become a quiet passage through which viewers may pause within familiar reality and rediscover the emotions, memories, and invisible traces of time that often go unnoticed.