Leisure
Lee Sangwon observes people at leisure places and portrays them in paintings and videos. His works, therefore, emanate familiarity and warmth that arise from personal and collective memories. Lee focuses on patterns that surface from the behaviors of individuals and groups while they are engaged in leisure activities, more specifically, the uniformity and social trends that arise thereof. As for the composition in his works, Lee uses bird’s-eye view to depict the invariable movements of a crowd, and panoramic view for the motion of individuals. To represent the uniformity of a large group of joggers, the artist draws a sequence of images to translate the sense of movement. As such, Sang-Won Lee depicts the familiar subject of leisure activity through various processes, and reinvigorates the dullness of everyday life.
