Fossil, 2021

In Fossil and Rewind, Sunyoung Hwang translates the physical intensity of her painting practice into print. Working intuitively, she builds and disrupts surfaces through layered gestures, allowing marks to accumulate, obscure and re-emerge.

Her brushstrokes suggest overlapping temporalities — moments sedimented one upon another. The titles gesture toward this cyclical movement: Fossil evokes compression and preservation, while Rewind implies reversal and return. Together, they reflect Hwang’s interest in how time is experienced not linearly, but as rhythm and recurrence.

Rather than illustrating a narrative, the works register psychological atmosphere. Spontaneous gestures carry traces of memory and emotion, creating compositions that feel both immediate and deeply embedded.

In risograph printing, each colour is printed as a separate pass through a risograph machine — a stencil-based duplicator that presses organic soy inks into the paper. Risograph inks are naturally vibrant — they are renowned for their vivid colours and evident textures. The inks are transparent so layers build to create more colours. Slight shifts in registration and a soft grain make every impression subtly unique.

Fossil is printed on Olin natural white 170gsm, an uncoated, FSC-certified stock whose gentle warmth lets the colours glow. The edition is strictly limited to 100 and will never be reprinted. All prints were produced at the London Centre for Book Arts.