Painting is often grounded in the premise of completion: a fixed moment, a resolvable outcome. In this exhibition, that premise is set aside. The works of four Korean artists—Soonik Kwon, Seungtaik Jang, Kim Deok Han, and Lee Chae — no longer unfold around the image itself, but instead engage in an ongoing negotiation with the process of making. The image is not established in a single gesture; it emerges through repeated covering, washing, polishing, and waiting. Rather than depicting time, these works allow time to remain within the surface of the painting.
Here, time does not unfold linearly. It is distributed across different conditions: held within fissures, concealed beneath layers, sedimented into materials, and lingering in the faint traces left by repeated erasure. Time becomes an internal structure of the image, no longer functioning as an external backdrop.
