Prélude à l'après midi d'un faune is a solo show by Singapore based artist Jane Lee.

Presenting a selection of some her most iconic pieces as well as her most recent artworks, Prélude à l'après midi d'un faune will explore the realm of sculpture within the painting boundaries.

Attempting to redefine painting as not only a medium of representation, Lee moves away from the restrictions of traditional compositional structure and instead goes back to the origin of paint: Color. In her abstractions color has not only a highly attractive quality but more importantly it has an objectified presence. It invades, conquers the space in morbid and elliptical convulsions. Color usually understood as purely a compositional element, in Lee’s artworks becomes the composition itself. It subsumes matter into form; destructs the painting surface in agglomerates of colorful substance. From a pure two-dimensional entity, it explodes into a flourishing three dimensional object.

A clear reference to French composer Claude Debussy’s master piece, Prélude à l'après midi d'un faune explores painting composition through the ideas of color and texture. If the musical shapes in Debussy’s sonata are able to evoke different colors and hues, then Jane Lee paintings can be considered to further twist and entwine these pure colors into magnificent sculptures.

“I am more and more convinced that music is not, in essence, a thing which can be cast into a traditional and fixed form. It is made up of colors and rhythms.” - Claude Debussy