Luna Jung-eun Lee
15 March - 14 April 2012
Heartbeat Gallery
The Orchard Centre, 14-18 West Bar Green, Sheffield S1 2DA, United Kingdom
Free entry
Tuesday-Saturday 11am-6pm
Private View: 15 Mar, 18:00-21:00
Heartbeat Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition of new work by Korean artist Luna Jung-eun Lee.
“The habit of gathering random images allows me to identify my position within the world and makes me reflect back to my delicate existence in the ephemeral dreams of everyday life.”
Luna Jung-eun Lee‟s current body of work is primarily focused on the gesture of collecting found images daily via the Internet, questioning the equal value of images, objects, possession, and a possibility of autonomy in the unseen virtual networking system in terms of globalisation. Lee attempts to free herself from the prefixed notions and structures of the rational idea of modernization by playing with the concept that something else will replace or relocate our preconceptions. Lee‟s new work is based upon collage, constructed and deconstructed fragmental images that explore the socio-cultural forms in our global community. By playing with collage she explores the idea of the ambiguous and the reversible. Through the method of layering, Lee creates absurd imagery that is in itself paradoxical.
Lee‟s work directly indicates the contradictory principle of real and fake, natural and artificial, analogue and digital. In parallel, she is interested in the co-existence of determined facts and shifting, ambiguous definitions by the creation of a singular pictorial scene with personal imagined land. Across a range of media including drawing, painting, screen print, sculpture and site-specific installation, Lee manipulates tangible objects and forms alongside their connection to the immateriality in hyper reality.
Luna Jung-eun Lee, b. 1985, Seoul, Korea, 2011 MFA Fine Art, Goldsmiths College, London. At present she lives in London, UK and Seoul, Korea.