Im Jaehyoung collects images of personal and social loss and explores them in various ways, linking the concept of 'disappearance' with the act of painting. Through his paintings, he creates a unique visual distance, addressing the psychological and ethical distances associated with absence.

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With Eyes Closed

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"Heavy Snow" is a work where a quickly painted image on a small canvas is replicated again with a pencil on a larger paper. Undergoing a process that could be described as re-drawing or translating expression, the image acquires the characteristics of both mediums. The swift strokes of the brush and the slower movement of the pencil are simultaneously revealed, as are the physical properties of wet and dry materials.
The redrawn picture maintains the form of the original painting while softening its intense expressiveness. Shapes created by accidental effects like dripping or smudging are given a sense of inevitability as they are meticulously depicted using a pencil, as is. The work points to the dynamically drawn shapes but imparts a feeling of retracing them with a static, sober gaze. This is also a work that questions the whereabouts of meaning somewhere in the process of drawing.

Heavy Snow

Im Jaehyoung visualizes images of disappearing elements and loss. In his "Solid Water" series, the icebergs stand solitary in a silence so profound that even sound seems absent. Yet, beneath their interface with the sea, they incessantly erode and melt away. The icebergs, destined to remain only as images, become metaphors for things left behind or taken away, existing and vanishing in unknown distant places.

Solid Water

"Heavy Snow(2021)" is a work where a quickly drawn picture on a small screen is replicated again in pencil on a larger paper. While maintaining the shape of the initial drawing, it softens the intense expressiveness of the original image, creating a unique visual distance.