Vacance Boom

Drawing from family photographs taken in Korea during the 1970s, this series explores the emergence of leisure culture during a period of rapid social change — a shift encapsulated by the newly coined term Vacance Boom.

The paintings depict figures at rest, distracted, or occasionally idle: traveling, playing instruments, watching sports. Their gestures carry a clumsy yet sincere familiarity, shaped through newly visible forms of everyday pleasure and collective recreation.

Across fragmented compositions, poses, glances, and small exchanges accumulate as relational atmospheres, tracing the quiet dynamics of intimacy, awkwardness, distance, and familiarity embedded within shared everyday life.