Inhyuk Park's paintings begin with the body. Through martial arts and physical training he has practiced since childhood, he has learned that the body is a universe where senses and memories are condensed and circulate with each other. And traces created by the tension and relaxation of the body, changes in breathing and rhythm have been left on the canvas. The technique of using both the hand(body) and the brush(tool) simultaneously expresses impulsive energy and the trembling of waves, the calm order of breathing, and the depth of accumulated time. He is greatly inspired by nature, but he is not absorbed in its forms, but in its primordial movements and nature as the source of life. Therefore, he seeks to show painting as a living process that cannot be completed in any one state, and his paintings remain in an unfinished state where intuition and composition constantly collide.
Yeju Lee considers clothing as a symbol of memory, where personal time and emotions accumulate, and transforms this into pictorial language. The faded colors, worn textures, and sewing marks left on old clothes are material traces of time gone by. She seeks to preserve time and memory through the pictorial process of reconstructing them on the canvas. Even in an age where digital records accumulate and disappear rapidly, painting requires slow speed and sustained time. The new painting, painted on a newly woven canvas, is also an exploration of the possibility that memories contained in material can continue into future time.
