SURREA

Seoul-based multidisciplinary artist Surrea creates work at the intersection of painting, installation, and sculpture. With formal training in Germany (MFA, University of Fine Arts Münster) and Korea, her practice emerges from the tension between cultural identities and psychological displacement.

Surrea's distinctive technique transforms traditional canvases into three-dimensional sculptural paintings through cutting, layering, and relief work. Her intuitive process - eschewing sketches for spontaneous creation - embraces the automatism of classic surrealism while reimagining it through a contemporary, tactile lens.

The artist's concave forms and textural interventions create what she terms a "tactile econotexte," where fragmented German text and visual elements converge, inviting both cognitive and sensory engagement. Recurring motifs like pinecones symbolize intuitive perception and inner awakening.

In Surrea's words: "Reality is full of forbidden things, but there is nothing forbidden in my space." Her work functions as both sanctuary and exploration - a tactile map of the unconscious and a living archive of transformation.