JOO YOUNG LEE
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The most accurate world
Print on Paper
29.7x21.1cm (each)
2020



tax bomb
tax bomb
deep-rooted evil
deep-rooted evil
economic depression
economic depression
war
war
low negative
low negative

Installation view

‌White Brick (Perception)
‌Mixed Media
19.5 x 11 x 5 cm (each)
2020


Object bricks describe what can be built up through language and become a wall, bounder, collapse, or change (=The Perception). Though the writing should be written, we studied the shape of bricks except the writing in the experimental stage. I will write these words: LOOK, WE, YOU, ARE, VICTIM, IRREVERSIBLE

‌Installation View

Mindmapping
Pencil, Charcoal on Paper
2020


This mindmap is related to my concept 'Fake News', 'Language'.

Mindmapping
Mindmapping

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Mindmapping
Mindmapping

Installation View 1

Installation View 2

Installation View 2

‌Untitled (Black Poetry)
Oil on Oil paper, Sound
21.1x29.7 cm (each)
2020

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‌I made a sound, but it is too hard to upload it on ‌Website. I will try it again. The sound is a repeating recorded voice that women read poems slowly‌.

Visual Poetry
Visual Poetry

Korean Version

Visual Poetry
Visual Poetry

English Version

Visual Poetry
Visual Poetry

‌                                        Untitled (Black Poetry) Installation View

‌Word Repeat
Video
2020


‌This is a short video that plays word repeatings. And I also want to try adding sound, but it also has some errors‌.
The sound plays multiple reading sounds. This means some people read poems at different speeds, and that sounds overlap, then finally the listener cannot understand the sound exactly.

You can watch the video!
‌https://vimeo.com/user108020345/review/420592758/eab3c0b46f

Part of Video - said the truth

‌Part of Video - not fake news

‌Part of Video - not same news

Into the black
Oil on canvas, Silkscreen on mirror film

‌30 x 30 cm, 45 x 200 cm
2019


The work is a combination of forms using painting and mirror film. The audience can walk through between two sides. The meaning of 'The truth is transparent but black.' that painted on canvas is that we can see the truth inside and behind it because it is transparent. However, until when we find out the truth, the truth can submerge people's opinions so I represent that it is black that can absorb all colours. I intend to ask the question about truth and distortion as I make the audience stand between mystery sentence and visualised coded sentence. Overall, my work hopes to collaborate with the audience, encouraging them to face a distorted view and reflect themselves. 

Into the black
Into the black

Oil on canvas, Silkscreen on mirror film

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Between you and your reflection
Silkscreen and oil on transparent paper, wooden frame, mirror paper

68 x 190 x 3 cm
2019


My practice interrogates the distorted view, specifically this shaped by proximity to personal emotion and belief. It can generate 'the alternative reality and fact' with subjective thoughts, and I am attending to it. I present a visual realm using printing, painting, drawing and installation to reconstruct such event. This work is creating a space where the audience can discover, discuss this and project themselves. The audience can see their reflection from the mirror on the floor. Thus they can read and interpret these images between them and their reflection and also think these meanings and their present state..

The perspectives
Silkscreen and oil on canvas

22 x 30 cm (6 pieces)
2019


This work is composed by symbolic objects, texts and visualized sentences that depict 'distorted view' phenomenon. The practice is relevant to different perspectives by the viewing angle. 'Like' and inverted 'Lie' show similar shapes, but having opposite meanings. Also, ‘6’ or ‘9’ are the same shapes, but it is differently shown according to turn it over. Also, the sentence, which is in 1984 by George Orwell, is a code. Even though it is the real sentence “In times of universal deceit, telling the truth will be a revolutionary act.”, but it becomes code so we cannot read and understand it. These elements become a sort of tricks. These elements can contribute to offering questions and bridging the gap between the aspect and audience.

Between you and your reflection
Between you and your reflection

Silkscreen, Oil paint on the transparent paper, Wooden frame, mirror paper

Between you and your reflection
Between you and your reflection

The Different View

Between you and your reflection
Between you and your reflection

The Different View

Perspective
Perspective

SilkScreen and Painting on Canvas

Perspective
Perspective

SilkScreen and Painting on Canvas

Perspective
Perspective

SilkScreen and Painting on Canvas