Artist Hae-seong Lee captures the fleeting moments of everyday life through the lens of ‘Rest’, conveying emotions of happiness in the hectic lives of modern individuals with a flat composition on the canvas.
We each find our own ways to alleviate the stress within. Through rest in the repetitive cycle of daily life, we lighten the mental load, and the artist seeks to share this process of recharging with the audience through his work.
In the artwork, the placement of images such as chairs, swimming pools, and houses clearly communicates the theme of rest as a visual language. The artist unfolds the concept of rest as a part of recovery, hoping for a life that progresses happily without weariness.
A distinctive feature of Hae-seong Lee’s work is the use of acrylic materials for an opaque, print-like coloring that blends with the structured, rigid feel of the composition, creating a unique combination of colors that is characteristic of the artist. The depiction of water in the artwork is three-dimensional, while the background is flat. These restrained structural expressions and vertical lines aim to convey inner peace and stability, acting as a medium that engages the viewer with reality and connects them to a beautiful world through the contrast of bold and colorful hues.
The artist seeks to develop these journeys of rest into more intriguing and emotionally warm works, creating through this series of processes a space for emotional rest that allows the audience to find a way to move forward from the weariness of daily life.