Lee Jin-hyu’s artistic world encompasses various symbolic elements through the juxtaposition of heterogeneous elements. Western and Eastern influences, modernity and tradition, as well as the integration of painting and objects, photographs and text, flatness and dimensionality, formalism and content, all blend together. The images in his works include laundry hanging on old buildings, musical instruments, fruits, books, trees, flowers, graffiti-like graphics containing typography and images, and images of artists, including the artist himself, or political figures, placed on scarred walls. These elements, along with tilted shadows, signify the overlapping of past, present, and future. Lee Jin-hyu’s screens are filled with traces acting as clues, where various materials overlap to create diverse effects. The energy derived from the clash of heterogeneous elements flows dynamically, as described by art critic Park Young-taek: “The traces in Lee Jin-hyu’s screens are like clues. Various materials overlap to create different effects, and energy flows from the clash of heterogeneous elements.” The temporal narratives intersecting urban images ultimately reveal that the artist’s time is not merely reminiscing about the past or standing still in the present. Instead, past and present overlap, moving towards the future. The tension generated by the diverse and heterogeneous elements in Lee Jin-hyu’s works imparts a dynamic artistic energy.