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Mire Lee: Carriers

Past exhibition
15 September - 22 October 2022
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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Installation view of Mire Lee: Carriers at Tina Kim Gallery (September 15 - October 22, 2022). Courtesy of the artist and Tina Kim Gallery. Photo by Hyunjung Rhee.
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Installation view of Mire Lee: Carriers at Tina Kim Gallery (September 15 - October 22, 2022). Courtesy of the artist and Tina Kim Gallery. Photo by Hyunjung Rhee.
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Installation view of Mire Lee: Carriers at Tina Kim Gallery (September 15 - October 22, 2022). Courtesy of the artist and Tina Kim Gallery. Photo by Hyunjung Rhee.
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Installation view of Mire Lee: Carriers at Tina Kim Gallery (September 15 - October 22, 2022). Courtesy of the artist and Tina Kim Gallery. Photo by Hyunjung Rhee.
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Installation view of Mire Lee: Carriers at Tina Kim Gallery (September 15 - October 22, 2022). Courtesy of the artist and Tina Kim Gallery. Photo by Hyunjung Rhee.
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Installation view of Mire Lee: Carriers at Tina Kim Gallery (September 15 - October 22, 2022). Courtesy of the artist and Tina Kim Gallery. Photo by Dario Lasagni.
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Installation view of Mire Lee: Carriers at Tina Kim Gallery (September 15 - October 22, 2022). Courtesy of the artist and Tina Kim Gallery. Photo by Dario Lasagni.
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Installation view of Mire Lee: Carriers at Tina Kim Gallery (September 15 - October 22, 2022). Courtesy of the artist and Tina Kim Gallery. Photo by Dario Lasagni.
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Installation view of Mire Lee: Carriers at Tina Kim Gallery (September 15 - October 22, 2022). Courtesy of the artist and Tina Kim Gallery. Photo by Dario Lasagni.
Installation view of Mire Lee: Carriers at Tina Kim Gallery (September 15 - October 22, 2022). Courtesy of the artist and Tina Kim Gallery. Photo by Hyunjung Rhee.
Press release

New York, NY — For her first solo exhibition with Tina Kim Gallery, Mire Lee presents Carriers, the continental debut of her eponymous body of work shown at Art Sonje, Korea in 2020, and the Schinkel Pavillon in 2021.


In the front gallery, a spectral video depicting Lee’s mother is projected onto a cast monolithic form, joined by a slippery curtain, and other grayscale sculptural casts, molded from functional objects that “carry” in their day-to-day utility. 

 

Deeper into the space, Lee’s quasi-biomorphic “carriers” hide suspended behind a filthy, maze-like wall of used concrete molds, spurting an unidentifiable fluid out of a circulatory pump system commonly used in both dialysis treatments and industrial manufacturing. A long tank catches the fleshtone discharge, pooling before it is spit back out from the carriers’ unending, regurgatory struggle.

 

A telling reference for Lee is vore, a fetish involving the impossible urge to swallow the object of one’s desire in a total annihilation of boundary between self and other, necessitating a supreme violence. Rather than offer a clear aggressor or desiring party, Carriers, both the work and as an exhibition, instead turns to uncompromising partiality, reminiscent of the familiar or bodily in its spurting cavities without committing to a single, identifiable form. It is presented concurrently with Lee’s inclusion in the Venice Biennale, the Busan Biennale, and the 58th Carnegie International, in addition to her two solo shows at the MMK Frankfurt and the Kunstmuseum Den Haag in 2022. 

 

ABOUT MIRE LEE

 

Mire Lee (b.1988) lives and works between Seoul, South Korea and Amsterdam, Netherlands. She has earned a bachelor’s degree from the Department of Sculpture (2012) and a graduate degree in media art (2013) at the Seoul National University College of Fine Arts. Her recent solo exhibitions include: As we lay dying at Kunstmuseum Den Haag, the Hague (2022), Look, I’m a fountain of filth raving mad with love at ZOLLAMTMMK, MMK Frankfurt (2022), Carriers at Art Sonje Center, Seoul (2020), words were never enough, Lily Roberts, Paris (2020), Het is of de stenen spreken, Casco Art Institute, Utrecht (2019) and War is Won by Sentiment Not by Soldiers, Insa Art Space, Seoul (2014).

 

Lee’s work has also featured in group exhibitions including: the 58th Carnegie International (2022), the Busan Biennale (2022), the 59th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale (2022), Schinkel Pavillion, Berlin (2021), Kunstverein Freiburg, Freiburg (2021), Het HEM, Zaandam (2021), Marwan, Amsterdam (2020), Antenna Space, Shanghai (2020), Niet Normaal Foundation, Den Bosch (2020), Laurel Project Space, Amsterdam (2019), the 15 Biennale de Lyon, Lyon (2019), Art Sonje, Seoul (2019), and the 12th Gwangju Biennale Pavilion Project (2018. She took part in residencies at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam (2018); Seoul Museum of Art (SeMA Nanji Residency) (2017, Cité internationale des arts, Paris (2015), and was recipient of a Special Prize at the 2021 Future Generation Art Prize.

 

ABOUT TINA KIM GALLERY

 

Founded in New York in 2001 by Tina Kim and located in Chelsea, Tina Kim Gallery is celebrated for its unique programming that emphasizes international contemporary artists, historical overviews, and independently curated shows. With the gallery’s strong focus on Asian contemporary artists, Tina Kim has become a leading figure in introducing the Korean Dansaekhwa art movement to the American audience. Furthermore, she has created a platform for emerging and renowned artists such as Lee Seung Jio, Pacita Abad, Kim Tschang-Yeul, Tania Pérez Córdova, Minouk Lim, Davide Balliano, and Suki Seokyeong Kang. Through its programming, the gallery works closely with internationally renowned curators for special exhibitions and produces scholarly art publications.


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News
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