Life is Pain…au Chocolat!


Solo Exhibition by Hezin

2025. 08. 12 - 08. 30

1-2F, 1526, Sangam-dong, Seoul





Artist Hezin 

Gallery Afternoon is pleased to present Life is Pain…au Chocolat!, the first solo exhibition by gallery artist Hezin (b. 1991), opening on Tuesday, August 12.

Taking inspiration from classic French pastries- ๐˜ฎ๐˜ช๐˜ญ๐˜ญ๐˜ฆ-๐˜ง๐˜ฆ๐˜ถ๐˜ช๐˜ญ๐˜ญ๐˜ฆ, ๐˜š๐˜ข๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ต-๐˜๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฐ๐˜ณé, ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ ๐˜จâ๐˜ต๐˜ฆ๐˜ข๐˜ถ ๐˜ข๐˜ถ๐˜น ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฐ๐˜ช๐˜ด๐˜ฆ๐˜ต๐˜ต๐˜ฆ๐˜ด -Hezin transforms these intricate confections into poignant metaphors for the bittersweet, layered nature of life. Through a series of intimately scaled new paintings, she captures the fleeting beauty, quiet joys, and delicate balance of everyday existence.


๋ฐ€ํ‘€์œ (Mille-feuille)๋Š” '์ฒœ ๊ฐœ์˜ ์žŽ์‚ฌ๊ท€'๋ผ๋Š” ๋œป์„ ๊ฐ€์ง„ ํ”„๋ž‘์Šค์˜ ํด๋ž˜์‹ ํŽ˜์ด์ŠคํŠธ๋ฆฌ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฐ€ํ‘€์œ ๋Š” ์‚ถ์˜ ๊ฒฐ์„ ์€๊ทผํžˆ ๋‹ฎ๊ธฐ๋„ ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ˆ˜์‹ญ ๊ฒน์˜ ์–‡์€ ๊ฒฐ์ด ํฌ๊ฐœ์ง„ ๊ตฌ์กฐ๋Š”, ํ•œ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์˜ ํ•˜๋ฃจ ํ•˜๋ฃจ๊ฐ€ ์Œ“์—ฌ ์ƒ๊ธด ์ƒ์˜ ๋‹จ๋ฉด์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ๋А๊ปด์ง‘๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฌด์–ธ๊ฐ€๋Š” ๋ถ€์„œ์ง€๊ณ , ๋˜ ๋ฌด์–ธ๊ฐ€๋Š” ๋ถ€๋“œ๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ ์Šค๋ฉฐ๋“œ๋Š” ๊ณผ์ • ์†์—์„œ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๊ธฐ์จ๊ณผ ์•„ํ””, ๊ธฐ๋Œ€์™€ ํ›„ํšŒ๋ฅผ ๋ฒˆ๊ฐˆ์•„ ๊ฒช์œผ๋ฉฐ ์ž์‹ ๋งŒ์˜ ๊ฒฐ์„ ์™„์„ฑํ•ด ๊ฐ‘๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ์‚ถ์€, ๋ถ€์„œ์ง€๊ธฐ๋„ ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ, ๊ทธ ์กฐ๊ฐ๋“ค์ด ๋ชจ์—ฌ ํ’๋ฏธ๊ฐ€ ๋˜๋Š”, ํ™˜ํฌ์™€ ๊ณ ํ†ต์˜ ๋น„๋ฐ€์„ ๋‹ด์€ ์ฒœ ๊ฒน์˜ ๋ฐ€ํ‘€์œ  ๊ฐ™์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๊ฐค๋Ÿฌ๋ฆฌ์• ํ”„ํ„ฐ๋ˆˆ์€ ์˜ค๋Š” 8์›” 12์ผ(ํ™”)๋ถ€ํ„ฐ 30์ผ๊นŒ์ง€ ์ „์†์ž‘๊ฐ€ ํ—ค์ง„(Hezin, b.1991)์˜ ์ฒซ ๊ฐœ์ธ์ „์„ <Life is Pain…au Chocolat!>๋ผ๋Š” ํƒ€์ดํ‹€๋กœ ๊ฐœ์ตœํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฐ€ํ‘€์œ , ์ƒํŠธ๋…ธ๋ ˆ(Saint-Honoré), ๊ฐ€๋˜ ์˜ค ๋ˆ„์•„์ œํŠธ(Gâteau aux noisettes) ๋“ฑ, ์ž‘์€ ํ™”ํญ์„ ๊ฐ€๋“ ์ฑ„์šด ํ”„๋ž‘์Šค ํด๋ž˜์‹ ๋””์ €ํŠธ๋“ค๋กœ ๋‹ฌ์ฝค์Œ‰์‚ฌ๋ฆ„ํ•œ ์ธ์ƒ์„ ์€์œ ํ•˜๋Š” ์‹ ์ž‘๋“ค์„ ์„ ๋ณด์ด๋ฉฐ ๋œจ๊ฑฐ์šด 8์›”์˜ ์ƒˆ ์ „์‹œ๋ฅผ ์ด์–ด๊ฐ‘๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.


<Artist’s Statement>

Life always seems to go in unexpected directions, and keeping a calm, steady routine is harder than it looks. Trying to hold it together feels like stacking round apples-maybe three, four if you’re lucky-before they all fall down. But still, we try. Just like living another day, even if it feels the same as yesterday.

Sometimes, what keeps me going is something small. Like buying a really good baguette from the neighborhood bakery. That tiny thrill before eating it, the joy of picking it out, the comfort of pretty little things, the quiet moments when I pause and put everything down.

It’s those small things that carry me through the day. In that quiet, ordinary life, I feel most alive-and want to keep going.



<์ž‘๊ฐ€๋…ธํŠธ>

์‚ถ์€ ๋Š˜ ์˜ˆ์ธกํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์—†๋Š” ๋ฐฉํ–ฅ์œผ๋กœ ํ˜๋Ÿฌ๊ฐ€๊ณ , ํ‰์˜จํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋ฐ˜๋ณต๋˜๋Š” ์ƒํ™œ์„ ์œ ์ง€ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฑด ์ƒ๊ฐ๋ณด๋‹ค ์–ด๋ ต๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์„ ์• ์จ ์ง€์ผœ๋‚˜๊ฐ€๋Š” ๋งˆ์Œ์€ ๋™๊ทธ๋ž€ ์‚ฌ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋†’์ด ์Œ“๋Š” ์ผ๊ณผ๋„ ๊ฐ™๋‹ค. ์ด๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ์ €๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ์ž˜ ์˜ฌ๋ ค๋ด๋„ ๊ฒจ์šฐ ์„ธ ๊ฐœ, ์šด์ด ์ข‹์œผ๋ฉด ๋„ค ๊ฐœ๋ฅผ ์Œ“๊ฒ ์ง€๋งŒ ๊ณง ๋ฌด๋„ˆ์ง€๊ณ  ๋งˆ๋Š”. ๊ทธ๋Ÿผ์—๋„ ๊ดœํžˆ ํ•œ ๋ฒˆ ํ•ด๋ณด๋Š” ๊ฒƒ. ์–ด์ œ์™€ ๋‹ค๋ฅผ ๊ฒƒ ์—†์ง€๋งŒ ๋˜ ์‚ด์•„๋ณด๋Š” ์˜ค๋Š˜์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์„ ๋ช…ํ•œ ํ•œ๊ณ„์™€ ์ต์ˆ™ํ•œ ์ขŒ์ ˆ ์†์—์„œ๋„ ๋‚ด์ผ์„ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ทธ ์ด์œ ๊ฐ€, ๊ณ ์ž‘ ์˜ค๋Š˜ ๋™๋„ค ๋นต์ง‘์—์„œ ์•„์ฃผ ๋ง›์žˆ๋Š” ๋ฐ” ๊ฒŒํŠธ๋ฅผ ์‚ฌ์™”๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ด๋ผ๋Š” ๊ฒŒ ์–ผ๋งˆ๋‚˜ ํ•˜์ฐฎ๊ณ  ๋˜ ์–ผ๋งˆ๋‚˜ ์žฌ๋ฏธ์žˆ๋Š”์ง€. ๋จน๊ธฐ ์ „์˜ ์„ค๋ ˜, ๊ณ ๋ฅด๋Š” ๋™์•ˆ์˜ ์ฆ๊ฑฐ์›€, ๋ฐ”๋ผ๋งŒ ๋ด๋„ ์ข‹์€ ์˜ˆ์œ ๊ฒƒ๋“ค, ์ž ์‹œ ๋ฉˆ์ถ”์–ด ์ •๋ˆํ•˜๊ณ  ๋‚ด๋ ค๋†“๋Š” ์ˆœ๊ฐ„๋“ค๊นŒ์ง€. ๊ทธ๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ์‚ฌ์†Œํ•œ ๊ฒƒ๋“ค์ด ๋‚˜์˜ ํ•˜๋ฃจ๋ฅผ ์ง€ํƒฑํ•œ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ ์ž‘๊ณ  ์กฐ์šฉํ•œ ์ผ์ƒ ์†์—์„œ ๋‚˜๋Š” ๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ์‚ด์•„ ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ, ๋˜ ๊ณ„์† ์‚ด์•„ ๊ฐ€๊ณ  ์‹ถ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ์„ ๋ช…ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋А๋‚€๋‹ค.

ART WORKS

Hezin

Homemade

Acrylic gouache on canvas

25.8 x 17.9 cm  
2025


Hezin

Just a slice

Acrylic gouache on canvas

25.8 x 17.9 cm
2025


Hezin

Picking moment I

Acrylic gouache on canvas

25.8 x 17.9 cm
2025

Hezin

Quietly green

Acrylic gouache on canvas

25.8 x 17.9 cm
2025


Hezin

Unwind

Acrylic gouache on canvas

27.3 x 22 cm
2025


Hezin

Picking moment II

Acrylic gouache on canvas

25.8 x 17.9 cm
2025