#mire lee

[mentaltimetraveller]

Mire Lee Endless House: Holes and Drips The Arsenale at the Venice Biennale April 23 – November 27, 2022

[devilsskettle]

Mire Lee: Open Wound at Tate Modern

Using the building's own history as a power station, this year's Hyundai Commission is by South Korean artist Mire Lee. Transforming the Turbine Hall with fabric hanging sculptures and epic mechanical installations, Mire Lee has reimagined Tate Modern as a living factory.

A fascinating mix of materials made of silicone and chains bring her creations to life and challenge our ideas of what is beautiful, perverse, provocative and desirable. Open Wound invites us to revel in contradictory emotions: from awe and disgust to compassion, fear and love.

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Mire Lee

[altrbody]

Mire Lee, Black Sun, 2023, mixed-media installation, dimensions variable.

[machineteethepoch]

Mire Lee

[kannibalenlied]

Mire Lee Endless House: Holes and Drips 2022

[abwwia]

Mire Lee at Tina Kim Gallery

Another Korean artist making waves across the international art market is Mire Lee, whose work was recently exhibited in the 2022 Venice Biennale, as well as in her first American solo museum exhibition at the New Museum, which closed September 2023. Splitting her time between Seoul and Amsterdam, the artist is known for her otherworldly kinetic sculptural installations that combine industrial materials, like PVC hoses, concrete, steel rods, and low-tech motors, with silicone, towels, nets, chains, and more. Intentionally ambiguous and highly visceral, Lee’s animatronic sculptures walk the line between living organisms and machines. Often evoking oozing carcasses or isolated body parts, her works explore sex and human desire as much as environmental decay, embracing the grotesque and unconventional. https://www.wmagazine.com/culture/korean-artists-textiles-women-2023

[dontliveinthefuture]

Mire Lee, Open Wound, installed in the Tate Modern's Turbine Hall. Words below via Tate Modern's website:

Drawing inspiration from Tate Modern's history as a power station, Mire Lee transforms the Turbine Hall with striking hanging sculptures and epic mechanical installations, reimagining the space as a living factory. A fascinating mix of materials such as silicone and chains bring her creations to life and challenge our ideas of what is beautiful, perverse, provocative and desirable. Open Wound invites us to revel in contradictory emotions: from awe and disgust to compassion, fear and love.