Gallery em is delightful to open a solo exhibition of Hye Min Lee. The artist works in U.S. and Korea and this is the first solo exhibition at Gallery em. As the artist majored in sculpture, pillow works, collage and objet made of plaster bandage this year will be featured. 

The theme she focuses on is about very trifling and unstable 'emotion' we normally feel. After more focusing on own emotion, the artist gets more interested in invisible things like love, dream, memory or heal, and starts revealing it on her work. She uses waste materials such as fragments of objects, a frame not used, leftover fabric and a by-product of jewelry. A common point of these things is that they are not a center of an object but support around it. The reason why she uses them is incomplete and trivial things are alike her. And these became a medium of heal to her. 

Despite of using imperfect materials, her work has the unique beauty of form. As sewing remained fabrics from Han Bok (Korean traditional clothes), she makes a miniature pillow and completes the artworks with layered a hundred of pillows. Also, she creates piled frames work so that materials which were treated as 'outsider' are changed into a main part. 

The artist also uses plaster bandage and paraffin after she got a physical therapy. Making a pillar wrapped by plaster bandage or painting with melted paraffin, she specified invisible subjects like her feeling or experiences visually.
As the title said, the artist tries to interact with audiences about unstable and uncertain emotion. 

*image (left)
© Hye Min Lee
courtesy of the artist and Gallery em