Jaye Moon is interested in an architectural space using Legos and Plexiglas and working with it. She has exhibited 'Tree House' on the street in Chelsea, New York, and this is the second exhibition in Itaewon, Seoul. Most of her works used a container house, which means nomadic life style in the modern society, and a lunch box or a luggage, which represents our instant life. Focusing on industrial and technological factors of Lego, and dual-aspect toy. the artist make people open or close the windows and doors of 'Tree house'.
Jaye Moon got her master degree from Pratt, and got awarded New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship, and AHL Foundation fellowship . Now she is the represent artist of Newman Popiashvili Gallery in New York, Max Estrella Gallery in Madrid and Gallery MoMo in Tokyo.
Our lifestyles are portable and instant, and I am interested in creating modern architecture that reflects this. For me, Lego bricks are the perfect objects for they are associated with architecturalforms, as they are ready-made – based on industrial and mechanical functions. These days we are trying to create universal living conditions that fit in anywhere — for anybody. The concept of Lego blocks is fitting for our mass-produced consumer culture, which I believe will continue to be our cultural trend in the future.
My tree houses also remind us of those homes that people sometimes wrap with cloth in the winter to protect them from cold weather, and viewers can also see the bricks’ primary colorssticking out from the green leaves before noticing that they are just plastic blocks.
- Jaye Moon