Private View: Jin Han Lee
Beyond and Within
PREVIEW:
Tuesday 12th May 2009, 6-9pm
EXHIBITION:
13th May to Sunday 31st May 2009
Open Wednesday to Sunday 12pm-5pm, with restaurant open until 11pm
Entry Free
Jin Han Lee
The broad explanation of Jin Han Lee’s practice is awkward and strange relationship between layers by using masking tape. Tension and spontaneity are repeated between sharp images and layers. By using “masking,” Lee is making something, which is not a picture in a picture. The method is to paint over masking tape, then, remove the tape so the masking is a drawing. The act of painting is not just putting the colour on, but the taking off of the masking, to cut through that colour.
Also, Lee made viewers not be able to assume the order of each layers, and this leads unexpected tension/ spontaneity. By doing so, her painting is deliberately confusing. Her painting spans from past to present. This is ‘a’ past, ‘a’ past representing ‘the’ past. Viewers are able to see the subject and each element of painting is emerged to each other but recognizable individually. This is ‘ a’ painting representing ‘the paintings.
Jin Han Lee’s private activity beyond the surface of the painting is open to public view by leaving traces from repeated accumulating layers. Full exposure of her intimate activities to public view dramatically reinforced intimacy. It is back to front, beyond to within.
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