In the Deathmask series, Jaeyeol Han overlays paint on somebody's face to make it look like nobody, and recreate it as a modern mummy portrait that anybody can become. This series consists of only 99 works.

The Deathmask project aims to translate the Passersby project of the past ten years into digital sculptures.

The Passersby series, also shown in my recent solo exhibition, was a project in which I gazed at the faces of individuals I have denominated as the passersby, recorded the fleeting afterimages into drawings, and later deconstructed the drawings and translated them into paintings.

The Deathmask series, a project in which I have associated the paintings to sculptures and created a genealogy, was inspired by the symbolism of “imago” in Pliny the Elder’s works as identified by Georges Didi-Huberman, French philosopher and art historian.