About

Artist Lim Hyun-hee turns deep reflections on life and the self into paintings. Her painterly world, and the way she approaches life, resemble nature itself: different senses are not sharply divided or set against one another, but accepted as coexisting within a single flow. Inspiration from chance encounters with nature has long nourished her work. Her earlier works relied on momentary sensations and chance, and physical elements such as form and color stayed faint. Feeling that these works could not fully hold her inner story as it changed and grew, she began to explore new possibilities in painting. In her new way of working, energy rises from the center and spreads in every direction, leaving varied traces. Movement and flow are held within surfaces built up with layers of color and material. This is also an attempt to expand her inner senses into a more concrete and direct painterly language. The series premiering in this solo exhibition marks the starting point of a new direction in her painting. Where she once focused on recreating moments felt in nature, in this new work the process of turning inward, without any set purpose, leads to paintings that resemble nature. Visitors are invited to feel how the nature-like senses deep within the artist keep changing and deepening.