Sanggyun Lee maintained an interest in the image of civil buildings through field research and transformed these three-dimensional architectures or places on the canvas. He graduated from the Department of Fine Arts at Seoul National University of Science and Technology in 2017 and earned a master’s degree in Fine Arts from the graduate institution. When he was a child, his father worked in the civil engineering field, hence he is said to be searching for a connection to his works and father. Images of structures that emerge in work are abstracted by reducing them to a certain structural framework. Among the spaces where urbanisation is desired by humans, the desire to acquire subjectivity and spatiality captures the immobility of civil construction sites as an observer monitoring the process. He also applies on-site tools such as Hera, plastering knife, and ink rope to paintings with a construction mindset.

“Spillway Grout” is a flat painting that the artist is constantly interested in and working on/ It is reconstructed by enlarging a portion of a civil engineering site or applying tools from the site. The artist is fascinated in the land that represents diverse human characteristics and maintains stability through various substances, such as time, rain, and snow. The floating civil engineering construction site is a place where the artist can locate personal experiences and narratives that engage with his father’s memory beyond his point as an objective observer of the structure’s form. The work illustrates the process of visualizing the artist’s self-awareness, while simultaneously unraveling records of individual identity, prior generations, and human history.  

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