Yujin Lee

Yujin Lee explores ‘things that seemed to be true, but actually were not.’ Her practice begins with observing very small events, gradually arriving at new realisations. She focuses on the shift in understanding between past events once believed to be true and the present perspective, alongside bodily responses that often precede conscious cognition. Narrated in the past tense, her work employs indirect observation, in which ‘truth’ remains unresolved and repeatedly delayed. She understands this process as a state.

Bodily elements that frequently appear in her work function as primary mediators for perceiving and responding to past sensations and events, existing as traces of these processes. Each work is made by repeatedly rubbing, layering, and accumulating materials in ways that entangle with the body. This process acts as a translation of past experiences into the present, and an attempt to graft the surface of an event as a ‘transferable skin’ into a new space.

Through this process, images carry distortions, inversions, fractures, and layers, subtly twisting perspective and form to create a quiet ambiguity and tension, intertwining illusion and truth, past and present.

Rather than reaching a clear conclusion, she explores the state of understanding herself and adapting to the world within limited information and enforced delay.