South Korean artist is slaying the art world

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Recently graduated from Seoul’s Hongik University in her native South Korea, JeeYoung Lee shoots the invisible. Whereas traditional photography submits extracts of reality to our eyes, the artist offers excerpts from her heart, her memory, or her dreams. Restrained by the inherent limits of the conventional photographic medium, she adds plastic creativity and theatrical performance to it, in order to blow life into her immense needs of expression, and interrogation.

For weeks , sometimes months, she creates the fabric of a universe born from her mind within the confines of her 3 x 6 m studio. She does so with infinite minutiae and extraordinary patience, in order to exclude any ulterior photographic alteration. Thus materialised, these worlds turn real and concretise : imagination reverts to the tangible and the photo imagery of such fiction testify as to their reality. In the midst of each of these sets stands the artist : those self-portraits however are never frontal, since it is never her visual aspect she shows, but rather her quest for an identity, her desires and her frame of mind. Her imaginary is a catharsis which allows her to accept social repression and frustrations. The moment required to set the stage gives her time to meditate about the causes of her interior conflicts and hence exorcise them; once experienced, they in turn become portents of hope.

Recipient of multiple artistic awards including the Sovereign Art Prize (2012), JeeYoung Lee is one the the most promising up-and-rising figureheads of the younger Korean artistic world. Her Photographs have already found their way into public collections such as th Kyoto Photographic Museum in Japan, the Incheon Foundation for Art and Culture, or even Seoul’s OCI Museum.

My Chemical Romance


Nightscape


Resurrection


Panic Room


I'll Be Back


Childhood


The Little Match Girl


Last Supper


This Is Not Enough


Foodchain


Reaching For The Star


Oversleeping


Black Birds


Broken Heart


Neverending Race


Gamer


Flu


Maiden Voyage


Sweet Appetite


The Best Cure


Monsoon Season


Treasure Hunt


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This is all one room (her studio) that she keeps changing in to her own little fantasy world. My favorite one is Sweet Appetite.
Which ones do you like OMONA? 

Comments

[canxi.livejournal.com]

I LOVE THEM ALL!

Holy crap, these are awesome. Publish a book and take my money please.

Treasure Hunt and Gamer are crazy. This Is Not Enough is great too...I can't decide...I love them all a lot ;^;

[uledy.livejournal.com]

WOW.

Really truly thanks for sharing, OP. What a refreshing post!

I love The Best Cure, Foodchain, Broken Heart and The Little Match Girl.

[metafictionally]

Holy shit these are incredible!! I think I like Treasure Hunt the most tho haha

[yellowesque.livejournal.com]

i love this is not enough, foodchain, and treasure hunt.

these are amazing, something about them is really... disconcerting and uncomfortable to me? in a good way! i think it's the ones that are patterned (i'll be back/last supper in particular).

[skystealers.livejournal.com]

ia. they're intense and i had visceral reactions to most of them. it makes me want to see her process

[vermicelli-rice.livejournal.com]

I don't know know much about art but this looks fantastic to a layman like me. I could totally see some of these in an indie mv.

And I can't decide which one I like most. But flu, little match girl and last supper are some that appeal to me, just to name a few.

[vvipforseungri.livejournal.com]

the last supper makes me uncomfortable on so many levels.

that being said, these are GORGEOUS.

[jjang-intae.livejournal.com]

Nightscape is so so pretty

[exothermc.livejournal.com]

if this was exhibited i would take a one-way ticket to the gallery and live inside it.
my favorites are black birds, i'll be back, and treasure hunt - panic room isn't loading for me, by the way :c
all of them are beautiful!

[tokidokilolita.livejournal.com]

I feel like I'm looking into an I Spy book. But goodness these are gorgeous, really liking Childhood and Nightscape

[mad-nux.livejournal.com]

wow these are awesome. monsoon season is creepy it reminds me of hentai

[in-noctem.livejournal.com]

Nightscape and Resurrection *_* I want to dive around the little match girl set. The clouds look comfy.

[leorizanzel.livejournal.com]

Hooooooooooooly shit, these are amazing. I'm an art historian-in-training with a focus in museum studies, and I would gladly dedicate an entire gallery to these given the opportunity. South Korea has been producing some incredibly technically precise and innovative artists as of late. I can't wait to see more of this artist in the future (and hopefully she'll decide to bring an exhibit here in the US).

[frequency.livejournal.com]

i really like nightscape and resurrection. they're all amazing, though. i love pictures like these. :)

[vmaknae10.livejournal.com]

i love the Black Birds

[batterydead.livejournal.com]

wow these are all amazing

[hipployta.livejournal.com]

Her work is amazing...if they gave her an exhibition she could turn it into performance art of her wandering through her imagination

[skystealers.livejournal.com]

oh wow everything's so stunning O_O

i love nightscape, resurrection, and i'll be back the most! they're all really gorgeous tho

[the-erotomanic.livejournal.com]

some of it are a bit too literal, but can't deny the effort and craftsmanship put into this. they are definitely visually stunning masterpieces.

i like i'll be back, because it looks like she's flushing herself in a toilet. lol!

[indira22.livejournal.com]

wow..just wow..for someone that doesnt have sense of art like me..everything look so gorgeous..
her imagination just fantastic..

[carmine-pink.livejournal.com]

Wow, these are amazing. Some are gorgeous, while some are straight from nightmares.

Thanks for sharing OP!

[chloe1910.livejournal.com]

Wow, these are gorgeous.

[jeliza]

These are marvelous ... she's taking Sandy Skoglund's installation work to another level.

Thanks for the art post, OP!

[broadway-bound3.livejournal.com]

I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought of Sandy Skoglund. Even though the two artists aren't that far apart time-wise, you can definitely see the 15-year difference.

[ah-mui.livejournal.com]

All of them are absolutely amazing, I can't believe all the hard work that goes into creating all of them. That said, even though it's one of the comparatively simpler scenes my favourite would have to be the childlike innocence of the Treasure Hunt.

Thanks OP!

[feel-my-mind.livejournal.com]

These are amazing. Some of them definitely left me uncomfortable (especially foodchain), but for art, that is a good thing. I love Treasure Hunt, Childhood, Resurrection and Nightscape. The colors for Maiden Voyage also speak to me, but I'm not sure how I feel about it in general.

[maggmaggq.livejournal.com]

wow
very amaze (sweet appetite)
such scare (oversleeping)
WoW