CHA Hyeonwook (b. 1987) has continued a distinctive painting practice that explores the themes of memory, temporality, and personal identity through the acts of collecting and reconstructing. CHA collects personal experiences and memories—both direct and indirect—through constant interaction with the surrounding world, reconstructing them into visual images. For him, memory does not restore events as they were, but rather reappears distorted and condensed according to emotional and circumstantial filters, and is reborn on the surface of his paintings. These fragments of memory accumulate in his works like layers of sediment, forming landscapes.
May 27, 2025
