Dong Seung Lim's painting showing the detailed and quiet world with delicate and careful work is hart to tell whether his attitude is passive or active. His work is remind us of unknown invariable existence. As recreating a pastoral scenery, genre, form from tradition of painting, he arouses a sense of uncertainty in our experiences for each painting genre. To him, painting means intervention in genre, and authority a photo and the reality have. Smoothly repeated horizontal brush stroke seems 'hand-made' work, but actually it reflects on mechanically copied images. Those paintings reveal inner moves of a body through brush stroke and ink, but at the same time they show photographic images for a space and actuality. When facing with his painting, the audience can meet a 'pause' moment and recognize a slow flow of time. And constant colours of painting leads us to melancholy and nothingness.
- Peter Westwook (writer, curator)

Courtesy of Lee C Gallery