Discovering talented young artists and supporting them are the critical duties among the many roles of art museum. Daegu Art Museum organized the ‘Y artist Project’ to harvest global emerging artists along with providing promotional opportunities for them to communicate and exchange in connection with art professionals and major institutions. LEE Wan is the 2012 Y artist Project’s very first artist.

LEE Wan expresses his sentiments and experiences of the very moment we live, the everyday life we face into art. In particular, he has been persistently raising questions to how much we are encroached in the conventional and external perception.

This exhibition delivers comprehensive presentation of LEE Wan's introspection and disposition he continually brought forth since college graduation. It takes place in exhibition hall 4, 5 and the project room; his two representative works including, How to Become Us (2011, Installation, Mixed media, Dimensions variable) are exhibited in exhibition hall 4,5 and his new work, If Given a Chance, I Do Refuse It (2013, Installation, Mixed media, Dimensions variable) is installed.

Furthermore, the display in the project room is centered on his new works, produced exclusively for this solo show. Arranged into a roller-skating rink, Riding on The Silence (2013, Installation) and the video projection, Beyond over The Further Side (2013, video installation) let us realize how we are actually set into the sturdy social system, though we seem to live life on our own volition. However, from the images of us forcibly avoiding the situation and living a life conformed to the environment, the artist says ‘Oh, Pure love’ in sympathy.

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If Given a Chance, I Do Refuse It, 2013
installation, Mixed media, Dimension variable
© Lee Wan

Courtesy of Daegu Museum