Lee Su-jin

2026

Well

POST WINGS

"The Family Portrait" originally represents the most familiar and stable image of family, but in the works of Lee Soo-jin, home is not a neatly arranged photo with everyone smiling. Instead, it is a living community formed by countless emotions, memories, and relationships layered upon one another.

In the painting, the shapes resembling people, eyes, and faces penetrate each other without clear boundaries, much like the trajectories of a family's shared life—there is intimacy, as well as conflict; dependency, alongside each person's unspoken inner world. The recurring "eyes" seem to gaze at one another, while also reflecting the traces left by time.

Lee Soo-jin does not romanticize the family but instead depicts the complex and authentic emotional connections between family members with almost instinctual brush strokes. Home is not always harmonious; rather, it signifies that even when differences exist and collisions occur, lives remain deeply intertwined.

Consequently, what "The Family Portrait" leaves behind is not the appearance of a moment but a portrait about "relationships." As time takes away youth and the mundane, what truly endures may be these traces of once shared love, arguments, and concern, which can never be severed from each other's lives.

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