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Space K Seoul is pleased to present The Season We Fade Away, a solo exhibition by Moonassi (b. 1980). Rooted in the traditions of Korean painting, the artist has long explored the mind, human relationships, and the subtle inner currents that flow between them. In this exhibition, his paintings serve as both a journey following the flow of emotions and a site for quiet contemplation of the self.

For Moonassi, each stroke that remains on paper resembles a ripple spreading across the surface of the mind—like a tremor that gently disturbs still water. Just as the faintest vibration expands into waves, the movements of the inner self—elusive and resistant to words—slowly take shape on the picture plane.

The Season We Fade Away reflects on how emotions are born from and fade within relationships. Emotions are awakened and stirred by encounters with others. Like waves on the water, relationships and emotions seep into one another, exchanging light. The artist captures these moments of delicate balance: from figures facing one another, to sharing a gaze toward a single point, to pausing for a breath before a face reflected on the water’s surface.

Moonassi does not suppress or define emotions. Instead, he chooses to let them be. This attitude of acceptance becomes a way of seeing the self reflected through others, leading to a quiet observation of one's own being amidst these fluctuations.

As suggested by the characters in his name—"Mu (無: non-)" and "Na (我: self)"— his work traverses the boundaries between fullness and emptiness, the self and the other, peering into the space that lies between. In his compositions where the traditional ink meets modern sensibility, emotions do not simply disappear. Rather, they linger, changing form, only to resurface when the time is right.

The Season We Fade Away is an exhibition that reflects our own faces on the surface of the water where emotion and relationship intersect. Viewers are invited to accept emotions as they are and, in passing through the tremors of relationships, encounter a quiet moment of return to the self.