Yangsandong 10

Heo Suyoung’s earlier paintings form pictorial manifestations of books. His method was to pick up one of the illustrated guides to animals and plants, or a nature photography book from his collection, then draw its entire content—from first page to last—into a single scene. Each of his later works represents one year of participating in several different artist’s residency programs. Therefore, all four seasons are accumulated in one painting, and whenever the painting is finished, so is his residency. In his paintings, compiling something onto the canvas each day is a way of recording that day. As a result, landscapes of overlapping situations, which could not usually coexist, unfold along with a moment of different times being intermingled. Heo Suyoung repeats the process of drawing on his own drawings, and such a process archives fragmentation of his drawing surfaces