A friend invited me to go along with her to view Korean artist JeeYoung Lee’s exhibition and private tour on the last day of the artist’s exhibition at K11 Art Mall. It was lovely to meet the artist and she herself gave the tour in Korean, along with a Cantonese translator. Cantonese is not my first language, so I couldn’t catch everything that the artist said about her works, but I managed to learn a little something new straight from the artist herself!
Stage of Mind seems to be a play on the phrase “state of mind,” and it’s a great title that both expresses how JeeYoung Lee’s artworks are centered around her life experiences, memories and the things that happen around her, and at the same time alludes to the stage-like sets that she creates. Lee works on one set at a time in her studio, freezes the moment in a photograph, before taking it all down. She treats the experience like she’s reliving a memory before deinstalling the sets and in a sense, moving on. I would just wish I could keep all of the pretty sets!
| Cover picture: JeeYoung Lee, Resurrection, 2011, pigment print |