Exhibition Information

Exhibition view

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Exhibition view

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Exhibition view

(Image Source = BB&M)

Exhibition view

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			BB&M is pleased to announce its second solo exhibition of Lee Bul. The works on view, comprising a sculptural installation and a series of paintings on panel, extend the artist’s inquiry into the central subject of her oeuvre over the past two decades: the fraught legacy of the historical avant-garde in art and architecture as it intertwines with utopian aspirations and failures in the formation of the modern world.
 
Hovering in the gallery’s double-height space is a large silvery dirigible titled Willing To Be Vulnerable – Metalized Balloon V6 (2023). Earlier versions of this work have been shown in Lee’s solo exhibitions at the Hayward Gallery, London, and Gropius-Bau, Berlin (both 2018), in the context of her other works revolving around utopian modernity under the rubric Mon grand récit — the artist’s self-conscious tweaking of the term made famous by Jean-François Lyotard. The evocative form of Willing To Be Vulnerable speaks of both the promise and the betrayal of technological rationalism as a tenet of progressivist projects to reinvent the world. While its reflective, aerodynamic profile stands in for all things brilliantly futuristic, it also casts a long shadow of historical trauma, of the inevitable fallibility of all things manmade.

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