DrawingRoom presents a solo exhibition of Lee Sanoh titled 《Eclipse Plumage》 as part of the 2025 Emerging Artist Support Program, until May 17. As part of a program that annually selects one emerging artist to support with a solo exhibition, Lee Sanoh presents their artistic world through paintings and ceramic sculptures.

Lee Sanoh (b. 1996) works freely across mediums, drawing from Eastern painting and ceramics to tell deeply personal stories. The narrative begins with the passing of the artist’s grandmother and unfolds into a poetic and spiritual practice, interwoven with the recurring image of a "bird"—a motif that marked many beginnings for the artist.

In a time when the sleek illusion of the digital coexists with a fascination for the spiritual—its polar opposite—Lee’s work contemplates life and death, gravity and weightlessness, flight and fall, fantasy and deformity. In navigating these thresholds, the artist invites us to explore the path of existence and the meaning of life itself in the contemporary age.

While Lee Sanoh’s previous works focused on the bird as a messenger bridging life and death, this exhibition places greater emphasis on the structural imagery of birds themselves. The dry, crumbly textures in the paintings—reminiscent of colored pencil marks—the traces that evoke flight patterns or murmuration, and the symmetrical forms found in organic beings all point to the artist’s physiological interest in birds.

For birds, flight is both their reason for being and their mode of life. To momentarily pause this mode of being is to enter a state where life’s energy is condensed. Yet such temporary halts within the cycle of life are not exclusive to birds alone.

Through the exhibition 《Eclipse Plumage》, viewers are invited to re-explore the path of life, recognizing that moments of stillness are not a break from life, but rather an essential means of sustaining it.

“Eclipse Plumage”
2025.04.19 - 2025.05.17
Tue-Sat 11:00 am – 6:00 pm
DrawingRoom
2F, 68-4, Jahamun-ro 7-gil, Jongno-gu, Seoul, Korea