SOO KYOUNG LEE South Korean, b. 1969

Born in Seoul in 1969. She lives and works between Paris, Brussels, and Seoul.

The instinctive and vibrant paintings of Soo Kyoung Lee explore the meeting of gesture, color, and space. Without preparatory sketches, she lets forms and compositions emerge through a spontaneous dialogue between her body and the canvas.

Her paintings arise from an organic process where each brushstroke overlays, fuses, and contrasts layers of acrylic, revealing fluid and airy colored masses. “Thinking and acting are simultaneous,” explains the artist, whose work is based on a quest for balance between control and spontaneity. Every gesture becomes an imprint, every color a vibration that takes life in the depth of the material.

The monochrome background, a fundamental element of her compositions, is not merely a backdrop but a resonating space. It amplifies the presence of the forms, suspending them in a delicate balance between density and lightness, opacity and transparency. Like a visual cocoon, it structures the emergence of these autonomous forms, which exist for themselves and embody painting in its purest essence.

Through her intuitive and physical approach to color, Soo Kyoung Lee presents a painting in constant metamorphosis, where the creative act is inscribed in the moment, vibrating to the rhythm of gesture and gaze.