An Sang-hoon's paintings are constantly revealing and erasing. Starting from images destined to disappear from photographs, they undergo countless painterly decisions, transforming into abstract canvases, their traces solidifying on the surface. In this process, the concepts of "hand" and "stain" operate as potential elements in his works. The hand leaves marks at every stage, and the stain accepts these marks, existing in an imperfect state. Stains often reveal the truth before disappearing, briefly existing quietly in the canvas. They wander between disappearance and persistence, constantly transforming and reborn. The works begin with these disappearing moments. Photos discarded in the trash bin of an iPhone, destined to be erased as vaguely as fragments of memory, are summoned onto the canvas through techniques such as watercolor, acrylic and spray paint to form initial layers. However, this is only the beginning. The figurative image is transformed and destroyed again through thick layers of paint and finger painting, a process that is not just deconstruction, but a search for the seeds of new order in chaos. Recent works such as "Plants that Can't Survive the Winter", "Green Santa Claus" and "Morning Exercise" imagine various layers as a single plane, combining them flatly with oil paint alone. The artist's method is closely related to his attitude towards painting, which manifests as a resistance to the traditional meaning of painting. He does not regard painting as a mere tool for representation, so in his works, traces of reference or appropriation are either removed or rendered invalid. Even the title of the work is severed from the image, leaving the language trace unexplained in the canvas. This attitude explores another possibility of painting. Unlike the common tendency in contemporary painting to assign meaning, he reveals the inherent potential of painting itself by removing the network of representation and meaning. He is constantly changing, exploring new possibilities of painting in chaos, and sometimes wavering in the face of the uncertainty he encounters. For him, uncertainty is not a threat, but an opportunity for new possibilities and experiments, the potential to repeat failures in an unfinished and unstable state, to constantly question his own paintings.

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South Korea

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