Visual experience is shaped by an ever-evolving flow of images. Each day, we search for meaning within the forms that confront us and anticipate the moment when that meaning solidifies. However, the world we encounter no longer resides within the straightforward boundaries of form and meaning but seems suspended within an “intangible boundary.” This boundary signifies a state where familiar shapes, textures, and colors gradually blur, their original contexts and meanings dissolving into new modes of existence. This exhibition endeavors to visually unravel these shifts in boundaries. Jinhyung Lee and Jaehyoung Im explore “the uncertainty of form and meaning” and “the intangible existence” through painting, inviting viewers to engage with their works in a sensorial and philosophical dialogue.

Jinhyung Lee(b.1982) reconstructs the essential components of visual imagery, surpassing the familiar boundaries of form and meaning. By collecting and repetitively observing diverse images, Lee deliberately obscures their original meanings, emphasizing form and texture alone. Techniques inspired by digital editing—distortion, close-ups, and cropping—are used to re-edit and transform existing images, allowing viewers to focus solely on the materiality and essence of the forms, detached from their original context. In Lee’s newly created visual landscapes, symbolic references dissolve, leaving only the visual and sensory experience. Through these transformations, Lee identifies boundaries that dissolve into “intangibility” and reconfigures them into new visual forms.

Jaehyoung Im(b.1988), on the other hand, approaches themes of natural change, memory, presence, and absence through a painterly lens. His works abandon fixed forms, instead centering on motion and transformation to create immersive sensory experiences. Im’s paintings feature amorphous and ephemeral subjects—such as water, oceans, smoke, and shadows—capturing fleeting moments and the ebb and flow of emotions. The scenes he crafts evoke an illusion of perpetual transformation, reflecting the continuous currents of sensation and memory we experience. Im’s practice intricately intertwines form and meaning, dissolving their boundaries to offer viewers a profound sensory engagement.

This exhibition seeks to capture the moments when forms and meanings dissolve within the world we inhabit, exploring the new sensory experiences that arise from this dissolution. Jinhyung Lee and Jaehyoung Im present distinct visual explorations that transcend the boundaries of form and meaning by engaging with the materiality, texture, and transformative potential of painting. Their works offer not just visual encounters but also profound recognitions of the intangible. Through this exhibition, viewers are invited to delve into the latent potential of painting’s materiality and to experience a new realm of visual and sensory perception beyond form and meaning