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| Lee Bul, Willing to Be Vulnerable |
From the Hayward Gallery website:
For the past three decades, Lee Bul (b. 1964, Seoul,
South Korea) has explored questions of intimacy, gender, technology and class –
as well as the tension between despair and hope, horror and beauty – through
works that range from provocative guerrilla performances to large-scale
installations that attempt to get our body and our brain working ‘at the same
time, together’.
Taking over the entire Hayward Gallery, Lee Bul:
Crashing brings together more than 100 works from the late 1980s to the
present day, including a new sculptural work and a site-specific commission, in
order to explore the full range of her pioneering, thought-provoking and highly
inventive practice.
"I want to get across a sense of walking through
time, through different periods. My works are a kind of journey to another
place, another time. We travel, but the stories are in the landscape and you
can see that it’s always the same place." Lee Bul
Shaped by her experience of growing up in South Korea
during a period of political upheaval, much of Lee Bul’s work is concerned with
trauma, and the way that idealism or the pursuit of perfection – bodily,
political or aesthetic – might lead to failure, or disaster. Questioning
women’s place in society, particularly Korean society, she also addresses the
ways in which popular culture – in both the East and West – informs and shapes
our idea of ‘feminine’ beauty.
Setting out to ‘mix things together, conceptually, and
also materially’, Lee Bul draws on diverse sources that include science
fiction, 20th century history, philosophy and personal experience, whilst
making use of deliberately ‘clashing’ materials that range from the organic to
the industrial, from silk and mother of pearl, to fibreglass and silicone.
(Read full text, here.)
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| Lee Bul in Cravings, 1989, an outdoor performance in Jang Heung, Korea. |
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| Lee Bul: "Crashing", Hayward Gallery installation view showing Civitas Solis II, 2014, Monsters and Cyborgs series |
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| Lee Bul: "Crashing", Hayward Gallery installation view showing Civitas Solis II, 2014, Monsters and Cyborgs series |
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| Lee Bul, Majestic Splendor, 1991-2018 |
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| Lee Bul, Cyborg W1-W4, 1998 |
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| Lee Bul, Via Negativa II, 2014 |
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| Lee Bul, Via Negativa II, 2014 |
Matthew Collings (Evening Standard)
Joe Lloyd (Studio International)
Skye Sherwin: Interview: "Floating cyborgs and a mutant octopus... the grotesque, gorgeous art of Lee Bul" (The Guardian)
"Fire at London's Hayward Gallery as Rotting Fish Artwork Explodes" (Frieze)
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