I am a Korean artist and musician based between London and Seoul. Through painting, I construct narrative spaces that examine the human condition within contemporary society. Reality is reinterpreted through a surreal lens, where the boundary between the real and the imagined becomes unstable.
My figures appear familiar, sometimes resembling ourselves, yet they inhabit scenes of quiet violence, tension, or emotional dislocation. These moments do not aim to shock, but to reveal psychological states that often remain unspoken.
I am drawn to the way painting reshapes memory. In my painting,Aquarium, which depicts a vivid dream I had, I realised the memory of actual dream was being replaced by the image of painting. The dream faded, but the painting remains. Did it just transfer into reality? The painted image begins to replace the lived one. In this way, painting becomes another world, not an escape, but a parallel space that coexists with memory and reality.
Dreams, paintings, and lived experience overlap. Through painting, I negotiate what to preserve, what to distort, and what to confront. It is a way of inhabiting the world more consciously, even when that world feels unsettling.