The primary motifs in this series derive from my questions about who I am at the moment. It is a photographic elucidation of my concerns about my identity, exploration about myself and search for the things that I am capable of doing, desire to do, enjoy doing and can do well, and furthermore, my thoughts on how I should live my life. I try to search for the answers to my questions and concerns through the process of photographing and the subsequent artwork. I am neither too young nor old enough, grown up but not fully formed like the fully grown but unripe fruit, and still under metamorphosis. I am an adult but cannot be categorized as an adult in entirety. I am an incomplete being who is not entirely independent. The main subject in my work is to reflect myself as a member of the society and as an individual who influences and is influenced by the surroundings in it. Therefore, through my work, I strive to complete myself by reflecting myself and to objectify my current status and situations by creating sceneries of them.
In my work, I reconstruct my feelings and situations in relation to the society. The background sets and symbolic props and objects in them are to reenact the scenes in a metaphorical way. The set is 360x600x240cm in dimension and I recreate it as a narrative space by painting it and filling it with hand-made objects myself. By building the space with my personal, psychological experiences in everyday life, I try to visualize my inner world of which the meanings cannot be value-judged. My work, in essence, records my concerns and process of growing up. It narrates and dramatizes my life stories.
JeeYoung Lee is born in 1983, South Korea. She lives and works in Seoul.
EHXIBITION
Stage of Mind
February 7th – March 7th, 2014
OPIOM Gallery
Chemin du Village
06650 Opio
France
http://www.opiomgallery.com
