This work is part of a new set of collaged photographs that depict cities as in South Korea and USA, energetic, provisional, organic places, so fluid in fact that they appear to evolve before your very eyes. It’s a fluidity that affords the artists’ roughly sketched proposals for “an-architectural” interventions a huge freedom – a flaccid balloon clings hopefully to an apartment block, a frantic geometric form proposes a Matta-Clark like incision in a shabby gable end. This is a world where anything is possible, a frenetic, sometimes trippy world, a watery place located somewhere between Seoul and New York at some time between now and then. (Text by Artist Simon Starling)
2017 RU Alum Youngho Lee was born in Seoul, South Korea, and currently lives and works in Berlin. She has participated Seoul Art Space Geumcheon Residency, South Korea (2016-2017), Asia Culture Center/ACT Creator Residency, South Korea (2015-2016), Kuenstlerdorf Schoeppingen, NRW, Germany (2011), and took part in various exhibitions including Kunstforum Floesheim, Anita Becker Galerie, Staedelmuseum, Arko Art Center, Daegu Museum, and Asia Culture Center. Her work is in the permanent collections of Kunstforum Mainturm, Germany, Art Bank; National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea