PBG presents Layered Paradise, a solo exhibition by its represented artist Lee Jiyeon, on view from April 10 to April 25, 2026. Rather than emphasizing the seasonal atmosphere or the beauty of flowers, the exhibition focuses on a painterly attitude shaped through the accumulation of time. Featuring new bouquet works alongside paintings inspired by the landscapes surrounding her studio, the exhibition brings together compositions in which sensory impressions—formed through repeated walks and observations—are condensed into layers of color and texture.
In Lee Jiyeon’s paintings, nature is not a subject to be simply represented, but something that is encountered, formed into a relationship, and remembered. By selecting and reconfiguring fragments of nature, and through the repeated process of applying color and building form with her brush, she allows time and emotion to permeate the surface of the canvas.
Rather than presenting a complete or idealized paradise, the exhibition reveals a state of balance that momentarily emerges as everyday life and memory, interior and exterior time, overlap. In Lee Jiyeon’s work, paradise is not a place of escape, but a quiet rhythm that sustains life—offering viewers a sense of calm and repose.
In Lee Jiyeon’s paintings, nature is not a subject to be simply represented, but something that is encountered, formed into a relationship, and remembered. By selecting and reconfiguring fragments of nature, and through the repeated process of applying color and building form with her brush, she allows time and emotion to permeate the surface of the canvas.
Rather than presenting a complete or idealized paradise, the exhibition reveals a state of balance that momentarily emerges as everyday life and memory, interior and exterior time, overlap. In Lee Jiyeon’s work, paradise is not a place of escape, but a quiet rhythm that sustains life—offering viewers a sense of calm and repose.
