Lust

"Everybody is an Abstract Expressionist"

While being a student of Abstract Expressionism, the Artist Insu Chae(1989-) found a critical problem in this discipline.

Action based abstraction is always noticed by the painter, thus turning expression into performance and the Artist into a performer. The aim of this approach is to showcase and convey pure feelings, although the result is pretentiously intellectual, leaving the audience with little or nothing to relate.

During Chae's struggle to make accurate expressions on canvas, he looked at his phone screen.
Insu discovered that our unnoticed acts on the smart phone's touch screen, such as fingerprint marks while swiping, are even more honest and coherent to represent our expression of feelings. These marks are made as an emotional reaction to what we perceive out of the phone screen.

Chae assumes this act of emotion as evident even for people who have no background in Art History.

To prove his idea, the Artist applied black and white oil painting, to make visible to the viewers his fingerprints. These marks illustrate the history of reactions and emotions perceived by the phone's user. A method that can be the digital age's
evolution of Abstract Expressionism, Digital Action Painting. Until now, everybody who had used their phones and reacted emotionally to their interactions with smartphone Applications and other users, can be considered an Abstract Expressionist. Until now, they were just unaware of this fact.

The Artist Insu Chae's work is based on the social dating application called ’Tinder’ to illustrate the feeling of lust or emptiness.