Don’t Worry About Hurting You. You Only Need Warmth. / 상처받는 쪽이 누구이든, 감내의 끝에 온기가 있다.
Acrylic on wood panel
227 x 162 cm
2026

Dear, Paran / 파란(波瀾)에게
Acrylic on wood panel
41 x 41 cm
2026

After Transmission
Acrylic on wood panel
41 x 51 cm
2026

Jaeyoun Lee

Jaeyoun Lee’s practice begins with the traces of sensations that remain after an ending. Warmth, anxiety, hurt and intimacy do not entirely disappear when a relationship comes to an end. Instead, they accumulate in altered forms and continue to shape the present. Her paintings emerge from the recognition that tender and painful sensations do not remain clearly separate, nor do they simply vanish; they continue to operate while becoming entangled with one another.

She builds images by layering acrylic, covering and sanding back the surface. Sanding is not an act of damaging a finished image, but a painterly method of bringing buried colours and traces back to the surface. The lines, fractures and conflicting layers of colour revealed through this process create a condition in which what has been erased and what remains, past and present, can coexist within a single painting.

Bodily, organic and forest-like forms recur in her paintings as traces of encounter between beings shaped by different conditions. These encounters are never entirely stable or harmonious. They often carry sensations that are uncertain, frightening, or difficult to fully understand. Yet she does not treat this instability as a flaw to be removed, but as a condition through which sensation emerges and the present is formed. Her paintings explore states in which different beings and moments collide, intermingle, and allow sensations once thought to have disappeared to remain in another form within the present.