Lee Je
In the dark night, the women dance in the glowing flower garden. All the times when women were deprived of the means to express themselves and have been dismissed as madness paradoxically allows them to be expressed as shining brighter with freedom and teeming energy. As it is said that the deeper the night is, the nearer the dawn is, the festival of women is mysteriously directed. Grandmother's grave becomes a site of a festival where women celebrate, transcending time and space. The hazy flowers that glow in the dark become the eyes of the wild looking at the world, like nature gazing at civilization. The world is not known to us as the world itself. The world is never perceived as the world really is. It is bound to be perceived as larger or smaller than it actually is. In these vibrations of perception, large and small, we come to recognize the original face of the world. Painting combined with the movement of visual images can be seen as the total harmony of metaphors. A successful metaphor always comes too late for us or is always far away from us. The artist senses it in the studio.
Lee Je (b.1979)
2004 MFA Fine Art, Kookmin University, Seoul, Korea
2002 BFA Fine Art, Kookmin University, Seoul, Korea
Solo exhibitions
2017 Halfway Round The Wrist, Chosun Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2015 Heat Wave, Butten Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2014 Warmth, Chosun Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2010 Here and Now, OCI Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2009 Flower Delivery, Gallery King, Seoul , Korea
2006 The Scenery Begins, Alternative Space Loop, Seoul, Korea
2005 Our Dazzling Moment, Joheung Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Selected Group exhibitions
2019 Our Dance Always Come Unexpectedly, Space illi, Seoul, Korea
2018 Night Mountaineering, Artspace Hue, Paju, Korea
2017 Exhibiton of Space, Community Space Litmus, Ansan, Korea
2017 A Research on Feminist Art Now, Space One, Seoul, Korea
2016 Twin Peaks, HITE Collection, Seoul, Korea
2016 Made in Seoul, Centre d'art Meymac, Meymac, France
2016 The Art of Not Landing, Cake Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2015 Again, It’s a Painting, Woomin artcenter, Chungju, Korea
2015 Floating and Sinking, Gallery Factory, Seoul, Korea
2015 Sixth Sence, OCI Museun, Seoul, Korea
2014 Anyang Public Art Project4, Anyang Pavilion, Anyang, Korea
2014 Spectators, Doosan gallery, Seoul, Korea
2014 Today, My Work, Gana Artspace, Seoul, Korea
2013 Space of Difference, Chosun Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2013 Monsieur Hulot's Holiday, Songwon artcenter, Seoul, Korea
2012 Do window Vol.4, Hundai Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2012 The Anthology : Selected Writings and Paintings, Platform Place 629, Seoul, Korea
2011 Painters, PKM Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2011 Between Techne and Metaphor, Artspace Hue, Paju, Korea
2011 Travelers, Artcenter White Block, Paju, Korea
2010 Intuition, Hakgojae Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2010 I Don't Let You Down, Duo Exhibition by Aesop & Leeje, Alternative Space Pool, Seoul, Korea
2010 Ordinary days, PKM Trinity Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2009 Wonderful Pictures, Ilmin Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2008 A Journey for 100years, Women's History Exhibition Hall, Seoul, Korea
2007 Traces of City, Shinhan Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2006 Familiar or Unordinary Landscape, Arko Art Center of the Art Council Korea, Seoul, Korea
2004 Talking to the Wall, Arko Art Center of the Art Council Korea, Seoul, Korea
2003 People Who Waking On The Water, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2002 Bright, Alternative Space Pool, Seoul, Korea
2001 Time Difference, That, Alternative Space Pool, Seoul, Korea
Selection
2014 63 SKY ART MUSEUM new artist support Program, Seoul, Korea
2010 OCI MUSEUM ‘OCI YOUNG CREATIVES’, Seoul, Korea
