Exhibitions

Exhibition Note Death has been my lifelong theme. I have longed for death since before I was mature. Life might be a journey towards death—a destination for all living beings. I do not fear death; rather, I accept it positively as a comfortable and peaceful void. I can live because there is death. I survive today for death, and because of death, I feel the greatness of literature and art. The will to live is an innate desire, yet I believe a desire for death accompanies it like a reaction—like the ebb and flow of the ocean. Some survive life by resisting death, while others resist life for the sake of death. I find this resistance primarily in the sea. Like waves crashing against hard rocks and shattering into small droplets, I break apart in pain, only to move toward the horizon again. I silently walk my path. The sea is a vast nature that abbreviates life and death. I ask myself daily what I want to say most through my work. At the end of constant contemplation, death always awaits. Death itself. The boundary between life and death. The contrast between the living and the dead. The dreams and passions that transcend this. Because this pierces me more intensely than anything else, I believe it will stimulate the emotions of others. We are all beings rushing towards death from the moment we are given life. Like flowers that bloom and wither quickly, life is beautiful because there is death. I snatch the natural objects closest to death itself, which I revere, and add color to that world. Whether it is the sea, a flower, or another natural object, I overwrite it as a surreal record, as if borrowing from the other shore (Nirvana). Through this process, I am briefly liberated from existential anxiety and fatigue. I live for death. However, my work does not stop at Vanitas. What I want to say is self-overcoming, substituting life's depression and anxiety with happiness. I affirm life through death and accept it willingly. In this thought process, which could easily become self-destructive, I accepted art like Nietzsche. Art is human nature. I chose creation and art to overcome myself. My passion lies there, in the raw nature of humanity.

Exhibition Note Since childhood, I have loved Nietzsche's philosophy. I periodically sought out and read related books, always chose Nietzsche and Goethe for humanities lectures, and kept Nietzsche close even when creating art. "God is dead. Become the Übermensch. Be extreme. Live dangerously. Amor Fati (Love your fate). Make your life a work of art." These are the voices of Nietzsche I have listened to while running breathlessly through my past life. Even when I forgot him for a while, swept away by the waves of reality, I would always return to the philosopher of subversion, revolution, and destruction. Nietzsche says our lives are a constant repetition. That all the pain and joy I experience has been repeated thousands of times in the past. That it is an Eternal Recurrence. Nevertheless, Nietzsche tells us not to become fatalists like Oedipus. He tells us to become Prometheus, who can affirm life even while suffering endless pain every day. He tells us to become the Übermensch, a physical being who always overcomes oneself. Thus, the conclusion is Art. Art presented as a solution within the thought of Eternal Recurrence, which can easily lead to self-destruction. I must make my life art and never lose the spirit of creation. To do so, I paint again today. In this cycle of eternal life, I express fleeting things that exist in this universe but pass by in a moment, in a non-existent way. I capture the atmosphere intertwined with natural objects I perceive directly, expressing them with light and colors conceived by my eyes and heart. With the desire to create works with my own hands that can comfort, even a little, those who are rushing towards death from the moment they are given life. I overwrite personal memories as surreal records to liberate myself from existential anxiety and fatigue. I brilliantly replace moments that are easy to pass by casually with eternal time. To polish a humble life beautifully. So that even if this life is repeated again, I can welcome it with joy.

Exhibition Note 2023 was a year dedicated entirely to artistic activity. I poured all my spirit into my eternal themes, the sea and waves, and strove endlessly to create better works. The result of a year of fierce struggle is about a hundred pieces. At the beginning of the year, I focused on texture expression, then on color, and recently I worked on returning to the origin. Through this process, I felt countless emotions from the sea. To me, the sea approached as: Sometimes infinite vitality and freedom, Silence and embrace that devours everything, The swirling pain of life, The will of the Übermensch resisting death and inertia, And finally, death itself, which I revere. The result of weaving these complex emotions with brushes and paint. The traces of agonizing over what medium would be most suitable to put on a 2-dimensional canvas screen, repeating pain and joy. I prepared this exhibition with the intention of revealing all of this without hiding anything. I do not forget. The waves I passionately wove, and the fierce ocean of ideas, will continue to move forward.

Exhibition Note Have you ever heard the deep breathing of the sea? The sea that no one dares to own. Its strong breathing never ceases, substituting brilliant moments for eternal time. I feel infinite vitality in the sparkling breath of the sea that washes away existential anxiety. The transparent sea eats the colors of others, devouring light and darkness, youth and death alike. Resisting life for the sake of death, I love such silence and embrace of the sea. Like the sea that ripples endlessly without resting for a moment, our lives flow repeating infinite rise and fall. The flow is sometimes calm, but more often it swirls painfully. And that raging wave resembles the inner storm that rages without knowing limits. With the desire to create works with my own hands that can comfort, even a little, those who are rushing towards death from the moment they are given life, I work on clothing the sea with my own colors. Because we humans never want to stay in monochrome. To polish a humble life beautifully. Since the time of the sea sparkles forever, and literature and art will also be immortal.