Shim Moon-Seup is widely known for his experimental anti-sculptural works that emphasise materiality and challenge traditional notions of sculpture by using materials from nature as objects, including wood, stone, earth, and iron. “The Presentation,” a series of paintings that began in the 2000s, is a new endeavour and an extension of the artist’s half-century-long artistic career that has taken him between France and Korea. The repetitive brushstrokes metaphor an infinite cycle and present the possibility of new life. The series of paintings derived from the seascape of Tongyeong, the artist’s hometown, expresses temporality at the point of ‘infinite brushstrokes’ and ‘infinity of the sea’. The endless repetition of creation and destruction is also connected to the inner images, experiences, and memories that the artist reflects on through his work, and the process of asking questions and seeking answers through them. “The Presentation” goes beyond the genre distinction between sculpture and painting and is a work about the temporality of matter and the process of embedding it, which the artist is constantly pursuing.