Jung Lee

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jung Lee works across sculpture and photography, these images are from her Aporia and Day and Night series.  Aporia meaning “coming to a dead end” in Greek, was inspired by Roland Barthes’ A Lover’s Discourse.  Collecting clichéd expressions of love and hatred, very much like Barthes’ collections of hesitations, stammerings and gasps, Lee places them in deserted landscapes in the form of neon text sculptures, mimicking cold neon signs so often found in cities. In the works entitled Day and Night, Lee focused on ‘God’ and ‘Love’ as the two main words reflecting her interpretation of Dante’s Divine Comedy. Lee produces a cluster of those ‘divine’  words and places them floating over the sea as reproductions or in a heap, demonstrating one’s desire for salvation.

Jung Lee was born in Seoul, Korea in 1972. She received a B.A. from Kent Institute of Art & Design and an M.A. in Photography from the Royal College of Art. Select solo exhibitions include “Day and Night” at One and J. Gallery, Seoul, Korea (2013) and a solo presentation at Frieze Art Fair, London (2011). Her work was included in numerous group exhibitions including the 2012 Daegu Photo Biennale, the Incheon Women Artists Biennale, the 2010 Gwangju Biennale “10,000 Lives” and the contemporary Korean photography exhibition “Chaotic Harmony” at the Museum of Fine Arts (Houston). She has also shown at the Seoul Museum of Art and Gwangju Museum of Art. She recently participated in “Crossing Media – Der Kunst die Bühne” as part of the Esslingen Foto Triennale.