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Existential Moments: An Interview with Jaeyeol Han

David Bingham:

Thank you very much for agreeing to be interviewed Jaeyeol.

To begin with, I would like to ask you about the focus of your painting which led to your solo exhibition in Seoul in 2012 entitled “Anonymous Passersby” at the Sagan-Dong Gallery.

In describing your intentions for this work, which seem to carry some resonance for your work in the present day, you said:  “Painting is direct.

My current way of working has been planned and designed to reach a deeper and more sincere level of understanding. When my purely observational sight finds a single face in a crowd, when I focus on that face I aim to capture its existential moment.”

Could you describe why the capturing such a moment of existence of a person in the passing crowd (whom, I would presume, was not conscious of you) became an important interest for you?