LEE Jihyun, Fantasma: Restless Silence

ARARIO GALLERY SEOUL presents LEE Jihyun’s solo exhibition《Fantasma: Restless Silence》from July 1 to August 15, 2026.
 Marking the artist’s first solo exhibition in Korea in four years, the exhibition unfolds across the gallery’s first, third, and fourth floors. Through the materiality of painting and the architectural structure of the exhibition space, it brings together LEE’s sustained exploration of memory, time, and the layered workings of consciousness.
 LEE reconstructs images drawn from remembered places, everyday scenes, mythology, and history through the language of painting. In her work, memory is not a resource for restoring the past as it once existed. Rather, it is an active process through which reality and dream, individual experience and collective narrative overlap, producing new scenes, sensations, and temporal relationships. The artist understands this process as both an inscription of memory and a painterly act of resistance against forgetting.