Sun Woo 한선우 Still Life with a Whisk 반죽기가 있는 정물화 , 2025
Oil on linen
65 x 45,5 cm
The meticulously rendered Still Life with a Whisk echoes its ostentatious forebears of the 17th century while creating an unsettling, grotesque scene by staging subversive objects and disorienting compositions throughout the frame. For instance, the featured candles—tilted, instead of standing upright—appear to have never been lit, thereby severing themselves from the traditional symbolic order, where extinguished candles represent annihilation and vanity, while those lit up symbolize the present reality of life.