This exhibition, titled "Authentic Landscape", invites a renewed observation and perception of the surroundings of daily life—those elements that often go unnoticed yet reveal their intrinsic significance. The notion of "authentic" implies a subtle, subsidiary uncertainty and an ambiguous positional reference. By highlighting what is "authentic", I reflect on the value of marginality relative to the center. The ambiguity of position also opens up possibilities for the sources of these objects, establishing a framework within which their placement in my work is conceived.

The subjects I choose to depict are residues or secondary elements left behind after actions and events. Examples include: recycled pulp egg cartons, abandoned railroad tracks that no longer serve trains, protective foam nets for fruits, rusted rolling doors of metal factories, paper bags for takeout food, unlit candles, and construction site fences and scaffolding covers. Through this approach, the depiction of these objects transcends their roles within everyday contexts, detaching from their original functions and extending the spatial depth of their materiality.

When these objects are translated into painting, they surpass the limitations of their inherent forms and textures. Objects from different contexts and with different properties are systematically arranged through layered colors and geometric elements, like recording the traces of ordinary daily life. In the "materiality of facts" created by the paint layers, the objects and media are absent from the symbolic system. Lines formed along or from the modified shapes of the objects carve their own paths in space, generating visual experiences of detours, repetition, transgression, and hybridization—revealing that each object possesses meaning simply by existing.

Through this reflection on the concept of the "periphery", the exhibition reveals the presence of these objects and transforms the way I experience daily life. Painting becomes a space for navigating between visibility and invisibility—a return to the eyes, and a return to a further distance.