No one knows where her story begins and ends. She never shows the whole. She presents only detailed depictions of the parts. At times, the pieces are composed of the numerous fragments coming from her dreams, memories, everyday life, and relations. Objects depicted in her works are in most cases things trivial, insignificant, neglected, or even thrown away. They are sometimes the parts extended from the body, or other times contain it, or grow newly from the parts deserted or cut off from it, or reborn as completely new ones.
Lee does not seem to escape or deviate from our reality. Rather, she repeats the acts of mourning for the small pieces of modern life, and the forgotten and wasted. And in the very activities, the fragments of dreams or memories might continue endlessly, waiting to be reborn as a new story, and the parts and pieces of everyday life, or even of the body are multiplying into the new one of a new daily life, a new body. Can we expect that something new will be able to be born here?
- Lee Byeonghee (Art director, Gallery Jungmiso)