SOL : « Sediment Paintings » Series

Created following the presentation of « Sea of Love » at the Philippine Pavilion of the 61st Venice Biennale, « Sediment Paintings » continues my exploration of the sea as a site of memory, labor, and material transformation. Developed during a five-week residency at Port Tonic Art Center on the Gulf of Saint-Tropez, the series responds to a landscape shaped by both natural processes and the maritime history of a former shipbuilding port.

Comprising intimate paintings (30.5 Å~ 40.6 cm), each work incorporates found materials gathered through daily walks, including stones, shells, driftwood, and other everyday fragments. Rather than illustrating the surrounding environment, these elements become physical records of encounter, embedded within the painted surface through successive layers of salt, soil, paint, acrylic medium and epoxy resin. The paintings accumulate like shorelines themselves, where traces of movement, erosion, labor, and time gradually settle into form. Accompanying the paintings is a series of sculptural floor works assembled from found coastal materials collected throughout the residency.

Together, the works extend the language of « Sea of Love » into a quieter, more intimate register, where painting and sculpture become acts of gathering and sedimentation, allowing the landscape to persist as both material presence and lived experience.