SURREA

SURREA explores Korean sentiment and imagination, creating works that move between reality and dream.

Her name, derived from Surrealism, expresses her desire to visualize sensations beyond the visible.

Through repeated layering and erasing with hanji (traditional Korean paper) and acrylic, she builds tactile surfaces that follow a natural rhythm of circulation.

For her, hanji is a living material—one that carries the traces of water, fire, earth, and air.

Her paintings weave Korean symbols and surreal imagery into sensory landscapes.

Figures such as turtles, cranes, haetae, swallows, and bears appear as archetypes of instinct and intuition, awakening the forgotten wisdom of nature in a fast-paced world.

The turtle represents patience and protection, the crane serenity and enlightenment, and the haetae justice and guardianship—each radiating energy that forms rhythmic waves of emotion.

By combining hanji with acrylic, SURREA visualizes the circulation of energy through layered, tactile surfaces.

Carving inward or pushing outward, she expands painting toward sculpture—creating a hybrid space where matter, language, and emotion converge.

“I collect sensations and deliver energy.

Freedom, I found, exists not outside but within.

My work invites viewers to discover their own infinite space of possibility.”