Artist Dae-hoon Kim translates the elemental forces of clay, water, and fire into a pictorial language, unfolding a sculptural meditation on existence, memory, absence, and trace. His practice is defined by a ‘multilayered structure’ where the materiality of ceramics overlaps with a painterly sensibility. The fired clay surface becomes a space for subtle language play, a visual field where oxides and chlorides are poured, rubbed, and layered, acting simultaneously as material, painting, and text.

This solo exhibition, 《No Reason》, investigates the presence of objects and the surrounding absence through cubic and rectangular forms that evoke ‘boxes,’ ‘chairs,’ ‘chests,’ and ‘houses.’ Images of a bowl of rice, a rocking horse, a home, or an apple appear on the clay canvases—fragments from the artist’s memory, sometimes left as collaged images, embedded texts, or engraved seals that testify to his inner landscape.

Kim states that the act of working with clay and firing it is a process of affirming existence, a relentless journey of searching for the ‘self’ even as images and words are erased and blurred. He weaves his own fundamental, ontological questions into the fabric of matter, painting, and language.

《No Reason》 is a field of new material sensation where craft and painting, form and language, abstraction and memory coexist—a record of artistic impulse that is pure because it is without reason, and yet absolutely necessary.