You must have misunderstood me, latex, used car parts, acrylic resin, 2020

The last course of today is your big ego, latex, gypsum plaster, found object, 122 x 69 x 80 cm 2020

The sluggish one, latex, gypsum plaster, found object 2020

Swallowed, found object, acrylic resin, maroni cover, steal, fiberglass, fake fur, 2019

No Named, latex, found object, stainless steel, 2019

In her work, Yein Lee investigates the visual representation of diverse material forms of existence - human as well as non-human, technical and organic systems. The two works "Tong Tar" (2018) and "No Named" (2019) are composed of hair, electronic waste, dyed latex and hot glue, among other things. Taken out of their context and use, the different materialities merge into their own sculptural forms of organization.
Inspired by a human rib bow in green-silver ("No-Named") or a dripping black-red organ ("Tong Tar"), Lee creates hybrid mixed constructions that seem to originate from surrealistic dream visions and are inspired by horror and eeriness.
Lee often works with an in-between state of solid and liquid: Her sculptures seem to arrest in the moment of dripping or pouring and wait for its continuation. Their liquidity manifests the fusion embodied by the sculptures and includes the processual development of the creatures in their form. The two hanging sculptures refuse a binary categorization of artificial and natural, thus telling of “living in the science-fictionalized world“ (Lee).
Text by Creamcake, As part of group exhibition "Symbiotic Agencies", Gallery Körnerpark, Berlin

I am Waking up Screaming, Cables, Styrofoam, Epoxy putty, Spray, Fake Flowers, Brocken CD driver, Brocken Motherboard, PET sheet, 92 x 58 x 64 cm, 2021

My stomach feels funny II, transparent PVC sheet, epoxy resin, broken cellphones, broken tablet, trapped two ants, a tillandsia, broken cables, 97 x 63 x 30 cm, 2019

Exhibition View 'A skeleton, just like the rest of us,' Christine Mayer Gallery, Munich, curated by Franziska Lindhart

My stomach feels funny II, transparent PVC sheet, epoxy resin, broken cellphones, broken tablet, trapped two ants, a tillandsia, broken cables, 97 x 63 x 30 cm, 2019

Exhibition View 'A skeleton, just like the rest of us,' Christine Mayer Gallery, Munich, curated by Franziska Lindhart

My stomach feels funny I, transparent PVC sheet, epoxy resin, broken cellphones, trapped two ants, a tillandsia, broken cables, three found insects, 51 x 29 x 17 cm, 2019

Exhibition View 'A skeleton, just like the rest of us,' Christine Mayer Gallery, Munich, curated by Franziska Lindhart

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