About

Song Young-kyu, an artist who graduated from Hongik University’s Department of Painting and its graduate school, explores the relationships between the self and others through mediators such as divers, sunflowers, and flowerpots. The artist employs the traditional and intricate painting technique of chiaroscuro to investigate the essential self that swims away from the familiar social self within the crowd.

In the complexities of everyday human relationships, there are moments when one might wish to cover their ears and focus quietly on themselves. The diver depicted on the canvas represents …