“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” Starting from this idea of Marcel Proust, I paint with new eyes and reinvent shapes and atmospheres. These new eyes produce images that seem taken from parallel worlds. The subjects of my paintings are often usual but play with modes of representation and question the concept of otherness.
They bring out feelings of the unknown. Drawing inspiration on traditional arts, science-fiction or esotericism, the result is paradoxical: to discover the world with new eyes, I first imagine it on paper, by creating images that imbue me with unfamiliar ideas, feelings and perspectives. Like traditional Korean paintings, Minhwa, who were seen not as simple images but as having shamanic powers, I see my paintings as invitations to the unfamiliar.
