Installation View at Strange Attraction, 2025, Lahti Museum of Visual Arts Malva, Lahti, Finland, Photo by Juuso Noronkoski, Courtesy of Lahti Museum  of Visual Arts Malva.

Oiling Bodies 1, 72 x 100 x 600cm (variable height), cable, car bumper, repurposed aluminium panels, 2025, Oiling Bodies seriese is commissioned by Lahti Museum  of Visual Arts Malva and supported by Kuusakoski Heinola.

Oiling Bodies 2, 73 x 85 x 75 cm, aluminium wires, lace, air-tanks, 2025, Oiling Bodies seriese is commissioned by Lahti Museum  of Visual Arts Malva and supported by Kuusakoski Heinola.

Installation View at Strange Attraction, 2025, Lahti Museum of Visual Arts Malva, Lahti, Finland, Photo by Juuso Noronkoski, Courtesy of Lahti Museum  of Visual Arts Malva.

Oiling Bodies 1, 72 x 100 x 600cm (variable height), cable, car bumper, repurposed aluminium panels, 2025, Oiling Bodies seriese is commissioned by Lahti Museum  of Visual Arts Malva and supported by Kuusakoski Heinola.

Oiling Bodies 2, 73 x 85 x 75 cm, aluminium wires, lace, air-tanks, 2025, Oiling Bodies seriese is commissioned by Lahti Museum  of Visual Arts Malva and supported by Kuusakoski Heinola.

Installation View at Strange Attraction, 2025, Lahti Museum of Visual Arts Malva, Lahti, Finland, Photo by Juuso Noronkoski, Courtesy of Lahti Museum  of Visual Arts Malva.

Oiling Bodies 1, 72 x 100 x 600cm (variable height), cable, car bumper, repurposed aluminium panels, 2025, Oiling Bodies seriese is commissioned by Lahti Museum  of Visual Arts Malva and supported by Kuusakoski Heinola.

Installation View at Strange Attraction, 2025, Lahti Museum of Visual Arts Malva, Lahti, Finland, Photo by Juuso Noronkoski, Courtesy of Lahti Museum  of Visual Arts Malva.

Oiling Bodies 1, 72 x 100 x 600cm (variable height), cable, car bumper, repurposed aluminium panels, 2025, Oiling Bodies seriese is commissioned by Lahti Museum  of Visual Arts Malva and supported by Kuusakoski Heinola.

Installation View at Strange Attraction, 2025, Lahti Museum of Visual Arts Malva, Lahti, Finland, Photo by Juuso Noronkoski, Courtesy of Lahti Museum  of Visual Arts Malva.

Oiling Bodies 3, 190 x 87 x 194 cm, repurposed bus part, silk ribbons, carpet, rusted iron pipe, rebers, Alkemia Deus Ex Machina, magnetic lights, Fahrenheit package, broken monitor screens,  2025

Detail. Oiling Bodies 3, 190 x 87 x 194 cm, repurposed bus part, silk ribbons, carpet, rusted iron pipe, rebers, Alkemia Deus Ex Machina, magnetic lights, Fahrenheit package, broken monitor screens,  2025

Detail. Oiling Bodies 3, 190 x 87 x 194 cm, repurposed bus part, silk ribbons, carpet, rusted iron pipe, rebers, Alkemia Deus Ex Machina, magnetic lights, Fahrenheit package, broken monitor screens,  2025

Detail. Oiling Bodies 3, 190 x 87 x 194 cm, repurposed bus part, silk ribbons, carpet, rusted iron pipe, rebers, Alkemia Deus Ex Machina, magnetic lights, Fahrenheit package, broken monitor screens,  2025

Detail. Oiling Bodies 3, 190 x 87 x 194 cm, repurposed bus part, silk ribbons, carpet, rusted iron pipe, rebers, Alkemia Deus Ex Machina, magnetic lights, Fahrenheit package, broken monitor screens,  2025

Installation View at Strange Attraction, 2025, Lahti Museum of Visual Arts Malva, Lahti, Finland, Photo by Juuso Noronkoski, Courtesy of Lahti Museum  of Visual Arts Malva.

Installation View at Strange Attraction, 2025, Lahti Museum of Visual Arts Malva, Lahti, Finland, Photo by Juuso Noronkoski, Courtesy of Lahti Museum  of Visual Arts Malva.

Front. Oiling Bodies 4, 170 x 180 x 80 cm, car parts, aluminium pipes, exahsution pipes, cables, parts of street light, Fahrenheit, 2025, Oiling Bodies seriese is commissioned by Lahti Museum  of Visual Arts Malva and supported by Kuusakoski Heinola.

Back. Oiling Bodies 5, 40 x 195 x 75 cm, cmmotorbike parts, pipe, parts of street light, 2025, Oiling Bodies seriese is commissioned by Lahti Museum  of Visual Arts Malva and supported by Kuusakoski Heinola.

Installation View at Strange Attraction, 2025, Lahti Museum of Visual Arts Malva, Lahti, Finland, Photo by Juuso Noronkoski, Courtesy of Lahti Museum  of Visual Arts Malva.

Oiling Bodies 6, size variable, pipe insulation foam, wire, 2025, Oiling Bodies seriese is commissioned by Lahti Museum  of Visual Arts Malva and supported by Kuusakoski Heinola.

Lahti Museum of Visual Arts Malva
Strange Attraction
Päijänteenkatu 9, 15140 Lahti, Finland
October 3-March 8, 2026
Exmantera, Justin Fitzpatrick, Eiko Ishioka, Yein Lee, Michala Paludan and Sarah Schönfeld
Curated by Ilari Laamanen
Commissioned by the Lahti Museum of Visual Arts Malva, Yein Lee’s latest series of assemblage sculptures engages with industrial remnants and fragments sourced from metal scrapyards in Finland.

Each piece retains the subtle scent of motor oil, anchoring it in its industrial origins. Lee reconfigures the collected materials through tactile process. She conceptualizes them as bodies in their own right, while exploring the sensuality that imbues their abstract forms. In her works, the diverse potential of technology is brought to life through physical forms that engage the body and the senses. These sculptures spark a dialogue between materiality and perception, the physical and the conceptual.
Yein Lee is a South Korean artist who currently lives and works in Vienna. In Lee’s practice, which encompasses installations, sculptures, and performances, the concept of becoming unfolds as an ongoing negotiation between form, identity, and structure. Her work resists stasis, emphasizing both material and conceptual transformation.