Mire Lee: Secession, Austria

Mire Lee's art exists in a physically palpable space where the distinctions between machine, body, and soul collapse. In kinetic sculptures, often composed of motors, silicone, steel, and lubricants, she creates organisms that are both tender and grotesque. By moving in convulsive rhythms or as if breathing, her forms evoke a disturbingly animate and profoundly alien vitality. Rather than producing a mere representation of the body, Mire Lee's practice aims to reveal its inner logic, its functions, malfunctions, and the systems with which it interacts. In doing so, she not only evokes the raw physicality of bodies and machines but also depicts vulnerability, violence, and desire.

Mire Lee's installations often evoke a disquiet that is affective; they invite close observation without promising resolution. The spaces she constructs are states of vulnerability, damp and ruinous. In these works, movement is more than kinetics; it becomes a language of survival, of never-ending restoration. Mire Lee's practice suggests vulnerability as a form of relationship in which duration, permeability, and intimacy take center stage.