Exhibition Information

Exhibition view

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			Artside Gallery is pleased to announce that it will hold media artist Florence Yuk-ki Lee’ solo exhibition “Let it Sprout beneath My Skin” from January 26 to February 24, 2024. Lee (b.1994) is an artist who incorporates momentary phenomena, vivid experiences, and visual metaphors in her work, and, inspired from daily life, explores the multilayered connection of cultural identities. The exhibition is part of a research residency project supported by the Cultural Exchange Grant of Hong Kong Arts Development Council (HKADC), and Lee’s first solo exhibition in Korea. In the event, viewers will be able to see her prints, original paintings, and installation works, as well as her media works.

The rising artist Lee was born in Hong Kong and received her B.A. in graphic communication design from Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London in 2016, and her M.F.A. from the School of Creative Media at the City University of Hong Kong in 2021. Her media work, Park Voyage, which was commissioned by M+ Museum in Hong Kong, is on display in the arrival terminal of Hong Kong International Airport. And it is scheduled to be regularly projected on the facade of M+ Museum from 2024.

Lee created works of art with objects representing playgrounds where she played as a child, works containing her childhood memory. Playgrounds are a source of fun and a space of amusement for children. However, they can be a place where one waits for someone or feels alone. For Lee, playgrounds bring her to her childhood place when she waited for her mother until late at night when streetlights came on. Noting such contrasting images brought from the playground, she found that a playground was a perfect place with which she could express her emotions she felt as a kid. Viewers can take a glimpse at her unique art world through her animations, installations, and drawings in the exhibition.

Viewers to the exhibition will be able to be reminiscent of their childhoods in the space formed from a new perspective of playground. In addition, it is expected that Lee’s work, dealing with a social issue that might be seen gloomy, will console all viewers warmly, and will motivate them to find out special values hidden in their daily lives.

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