Busan, b. unknown

Kim Joo-hyun's current works represent a series of creative endeavors striving to exclude conventional drawing devices, such as vanishing points, which were habitually employed in the past. While the artist intervenes to generate images on the canvas, the work is completed by focusing solely on creating color, ensuring meaning and intention do not surface. Water-based acrylic paint is applied horizontally, allowed to settle and dry, or tilted to induce flow. Through this process, the canvas reveals a natural visual topography. As artist Kim Joo-hyun stated, the “stability derived from uncertainty” does not resolve into form, stemming from an effort to constantly evade things defined and fixed by meaning. Since neither subject matter nor theme drives the image, the completed work evokes the artist's experienced synesthesia and fleeting moments. As seen in 〈Destiny of Warmth〉 (2025), diluted pigments accumulate, erode, and leave powdery residues. The duration of the production process remains unknowable until one observes the layers of color built up on the canvas's edges. However, it is intriguing that the physical time required for the layers of water and pigment to settle and stabilize on the canvas is comparable to that needed for the sedimentary layers or soil in an actual riverbed.