One Layer Beyond
Visual Language
Mixed media on canvas, Korean folk idiom with embedded veil
born
2025
Series
The Ambiguity of the Perpetrator
One Layer Beyond is a visual proposition that questions visibility, intimacy and the layers of perception. A translucent veil, installed directly onto the canvas, both conceals and reveals. This gesture mirrors how truth is often cloaked in beauty. Through the language of Korean folk painting, the work embeds a symbolic fabric as both material and metaphor. What appears accessible at first glance becomes increasingly complex upon closer observation. The piece invites both distance and vulnerability from the viewer. This work is part of The Ambiguity of the Perpetrator series, where beauty, violence and morality coexist without clear resolution
Beauty as Mask What first appears elegant and poetic begins to disturb upon longer view. This piece questions how aesthetic beauty can act as a surface that hides violence, manipulation or internal rupture. It asks whether we are seeing what is truly there or only what we want to see.
Veil as Device The translucent fabric embedded in the work is not just a visual layer. It is a conceptual tool. It invites the viewer to step closer but holds them at a distance. In doing so, it mimics the way intimacy often exists alongside concealment.
Tradition Rewired Drawing from the grammar of Korean folk painting, this piece reprograms its language. What once functioned as comfort or familiarity now becomes a site of tension. Symbols are not simply decorative but charged with the weight of memory, silence and internalized control.
