Johyun Gallery in Seoul is presenting As It Is..., a solo exhibition by South Korean artist Kim Taek Sang devoted to the behaviour of water. The show remains on view until 8 November 2026. Kim's method hands much of the image-making over to physics. He lays his canvases flat and pours water carrying a small amount of pigment across the surface, then waits for the liquid to evaporate so the colour settles. The pour is repeated again and again, and the painting accrues in strata. The artist likens the process to the way nacre forms inside an abalone shell, with colour and texture laid down gradually over time, and treats duration itself as a working material that allows the image to emerge. A rural upbringing feeds the work's attention to seasonal change. Kim has watched how the months reshape what grows, what is eaten and how the weather behaves, and those cycles have become part of the paintings' logic. His most recent group, the Ice Blossom series, pushes the collaboration with nature further: water spread on the canvas is allowed to freeze, so crystallised patterns shaped by pigment form in the ice, and when the surface thaws those configurations stay embedded in the accumulated layers. Behind the technique lies a shift in the artist's thinking about control. He describes a long fascination with water's luminous quality, its capacity to hold clarity and depth at once, and years of experiments aimed at carrying that quality onto canvas. The turning point came with the recognition that water itself has no colour of its own, taking on blue, green or emerald hues only through its relationship with its surroundings. Rather than directing every outcome, Kim now sets up conditions in which water, sunlight, wind, gravity and time can act on their own, and the sought-after luminosity appears as a result.