Don't usually post art stuff but wow! No photoshop, she does everything herself in the same tiny studio space.
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[URL="http://beautifuldecay.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/treasurehunt_120x96cm_Inkjetprint_2010.jpg"][IMG]http://beautifuldecay.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/treasurehunt_120x96cm_Inkjetprint_2010.jpg[/IMG][/URL]Treasure Hunt “Treasure Hunt is based on the artist’s childhood memories. Lee devoted three months to crafting the lush multitude of wire leaves – it evokes a child-like wonderland.”
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South Korean artist Jee Young Lee spends weeks and even months converting her work space into an elaborate tableaux which the artist then photographs (and never alters with computer after effects). In a Seoul studio measuring smaller than 12′ x 13.5′ x 8′, the artist creates intricate scenes, employing various materials, and camera tricks to create narrartive photos which reference fables, cultural metaphors, and stories personal to the artist herself.
According to curator [URL="https://sites.google.com/site/hyewonyiprojects/"]Hyewon Yi[/URL] “Lee’s constructed realities belong to the “directorial mode,” employed since the 1980′s by Postmodernist photographers in repudiation of [url="http://www.mercuryserver.com/forums/djdb.php?id=608"]the Modernist[/url] practice that sought truth in the everyday world. Lee’s “constructed image photography” may be compared to the works of German sculptor and photographer Thomas Demand…U.S. installation artist and photographer Sandy Skoglund’s orchestrated room-size installations. But in contrast to these earlier artists, Lee’s subjects are deeply personal and intensely psychological. Drawing upon prodigious powers of imagination, she labors for months to create effects that seem to expand and contract physical space. And always, a lone figure inhabits and completes her narratives. Jee Young Lee assumes the roles of set designer, sculptor, performer, installation artist, and photographer – and she executes them all magically.”
[URL="http://opiomgallery.com/"]OPIOM Gallery[/URL] in Opio, France will be presenting Lee’s first European exhibition, a selection of her ongoing body of work called [URL="http://opiomgallery.com/fr/expositions/presentationfuture/8/stage-of-mind"]Stage of Mind[/URL]. The exhibition opens February 7 and runs through March 7, 2014.[URL="http://opiomgallery.com/"] [/URL](via [URL="http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/lee-jeeyoung-stage-of-mind-room"]mymodernmet[/URL])
[URL="http://beautifuldecay.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/leejeeyoung02.jpg"][IMG]http://beautifuldecay.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/leejeeyoung02.jpg[/IMG][/URL]I’ll Be Back
[URL="http://beautifuldecay.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/brokenheart_120x96cm_Inkjetprint_2011.jpg"][IMG]http://beautifuldecay.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/brokenheart_120x96cm_Inkjetprint_2011.jpg[/IMG][/URL]Broken Heart “Broken Heart makes visual the Korean expression “like breaking a stone with an egg” – an ineffectual effort against insurmountable adversity.”
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[URL="http://beautifuldecay.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/leejeeyoung.jpg"][IMG]http://beautifuldecay.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/leejeeyoung.jpg[/IMG][/URL]Panic Room “Contrasting with Lee’s legend- and literature-inspired moral messages, Panic Room is also based on the artist’s childhood memories. Amidst Panic Room’s swirling patterns, objects fly off in all directions in an absurd dizziness.”
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[URL="http://beautifuldecay.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/nightmare_120x96cm_Inkjetprint_2010.jpg"][IMG]http://beautifuldecay.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/nightmare_120x96cm_Inkjetprint_2010.jpg[/IMG][/URL]Nightmare
[URL="http://beautifuldecay.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/thelittlematchgirl_160x128cm_Inkjetprint_2008.jpg"][IMG]http://beautifuldecay.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/thelittlematchgirl_160x128cm_Inkjetprint_2008.jpg[/IMG][/URL]The Little Match Girl