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.

