JIN HAN LEE

ARTIST STATEMENT

My painting spans past to present.  This is not the past.  This is ‘a’ past, ‘a’ past representing ‘the’ past. Viewers cannot recognize which layer was made first or later.  Viewers are able to see the subject and each element of painting is emerged to each other but recognisable individually.  This is ‘ a’ painting representing ‘the’ paintings.  Each image is  perfectly located as if the painting is cautiously selected out of many mistaken paintings beyond the surface. My private activity beyond the surface of the painting is open to public view by leaving traces from repeated accumulating layers.  Full exposure of my intimate activities to public view dramatically reinforced intimacy. It is back to front, beyond to within. Here, I want viewers to see notions, past and present, inside and outside, viewer and artist, are disrupted repeatedly.

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