Daein Lee About

b. 2000, lives and works in Seoul
His practice drifts between drawing, airbrush, and image fragments.
There’s a recurring figure, but it doesn’t ask for attention—
it just stays, like a feeling you didn’t mean to hold on to.

The works imagine a place where emotions exist as physical matter:
floatable, interruptible, lost and re-found.
There’s no narrative to follow, only moods that linger.
Somewhere between clouds, memory glitches,
and the static noise between “I feel” and “I forgot.”

He doesn't paint answers. He leaves residue.









painting for YESEYESEE x Tenga, 2024