Yein Lee - Breathing Timemarker 숨 쉬는 시간표기자

status of for the time being, 40 x 40 x 140 cm, dry flower, electrical cable, plaster of paris, fiberglass, steel, wooden branches, epoxy putty, 2023, Photography : Yasmina Haddad

the meaning of speaking up, 25 x 25 x 145 cm, steel, plaster of Paris, wooden branches, repurposed broken printer, epoxy putty, electrical wires, 3d print, 2023, Photography : Yasmina Haddad

Installation view of “Breathing Timemarker”, 2023, school, Vienna, Photography : Yasmina Haddad

Breathing Timemarker

March 17 - May 6 2023
school, Vienna

Time enables matter. Time is interlinked with the dimensions of space and passes at different rates. Everything moves with respect to everything. Time shapes bodies; grows, transforms, ages, gains, loses, rusts, decays. Let’s assume aliens have a different sense of time. Maybe one second is another one’s hour. They live at a slower time or a faster time. When I say hello, they might hear hhhhhheeeeelllllooooo. Or they may just hear a short breath of h. Don’t feel offended if you miss the answer. You just didn’t hear it with your body’s senses.

Bodies are markers of time.

— The circular rings of fish
The growth rings of trees
The bones of turtles
Our faces, Our muscles, and flesh —

We all are in an altering state at every moment.

What if we are in a time frame in which it is possible to see the after images of our bodies?

Calendars and clocks are just a framework we created. Interesting. Korea is finally getting rid of “Korean age counting”. Soon my friends and family will be happy to be younger. Yet let’s not focus on the sadness of aging. The shifting time frame shakes up the concept of bodies. The after images become a kind of reality.

I saw it. I see street lights are scattering. I squinted at the moon
it exploded into 8 lights.
something I can’t touch is touched. something I can’t see is seen. something I can’t hear is heard.

The altered bodies, altering ones. Not only biological status but our deep attachment to non-biological ones. So if we are watching YouTube long enough, will it become an extended brain full of dogs and cats? One slice of a cell, fluid, vein, mass, machine, metal, plastic, bone, muscle, vessel, blood, silky protein, lipid, ash, sepal, petal, stamen, and carpel.

These bodies are related to you. Can you feel closer to opened ones? Bodies are ever-breathing and ever-expanding.

A sense of belonging. A voice of otherness. That was all about it.