Sujin Lee is a South Korean artist based in Seoul who received a BFA and MFA in Fine Arts from Kookmin University. Her practice identifies and gives form to negative emotions emerging from personal experience and an unstable reality. Her paintings are rooted in anxiety and fear and draw on emotionally resonant cinematic stills. Removed from their original context, everyday objects and interior spaces evoke a shared sense of unease. Familiar scenes are subtly destabilized to explore the universal yet deeply personal nature of anxiety. Works remain restrained, using high-contrast colours, obsessive detail, flat compositions, and a deliberate lack of spatial depth to create a psychologically charged stillness in which fear can yield clarity or calm.
Her practice centers on identifying and giving form to the negative emotions that emerge from personal experience and the unstable reality she inhabits. Lee's paintings are often rooted in anxiety and fear, and draw from emotionally resonant imagery from cinematic stills and scenes. Stripped from their source, Lee's collection of everyday objects and interior spaces nonetheless evoke a shared sense of unease.
The familiarity of the scenes is subtly destabilized. Lee uses this tension to explore the universal yet deeply personal nature of anxiety. Her works are not dramatic expressions but restrained ones-rendered with high-contrast colours, obsessive detail, flat compositions, and a deliberate lack of spatial depth-allowing viewers to reflect on their own discomfort and uncertainty. Through this method, Lee's paintings evoke a stillness charged with psychological weight, offering a contemplative space where fear may paradoxically bring about a kind of clarity or calm.
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