This publication is produced in occasion of Lee Bul's solo exhibition at Mori Art Museum from February to May 2012.

'Since the 1990s, Lee Bul has built an international career as one of the leading contemporary artists from Asia. Her oeuvre is dominated by sculptures that demonstrate a mastery of materials and techniques, including her celebrated Cyborgs and Anagrams series, hybrid machine-and-organic forms referencing critical theory as well as dystopian cinematic worlds; karaoke "pods" that evoke space capsules for eternal sleep; and glittering, spectral gures and cityscapes that seem to be falling into ruin. For over twenty years, it could be said that Lee, whose practice has spanned her home country's transition from military dictatorship to democracy, has been on a quest for an elusive something, the ultimate physical form perhaps, or the ideal society. While showcasing her major works in the four sections "Ephemeral Presence," "Beyond Human," "Utopia and Dreamscape" and "From Me, Belongs to You Only," this exhibition will present the drawings and models that also form the font of her ideas. The subtitle "From Me, Belongs to You Only" is also a message from Lee: her attempt to find the "something" for which she is constantly searching in a personal relationship with each individual viewer. Come and experience that message for yourself in the spaces at "Lee Bul: From Me, Belongs to You Only."' (from Mori Art Museum website)

Along with illustrations of artwork, the accompanying catalogue also includes essays and artist interview, followed by artist biography and selected bibliography.

Access level

Onsite

practitioner
Location code
MON.LEB3
Language

English, 

Japanese

Publication/Creation date

2012

No of pages

224

ISBN / ISSN

9784582206678

No of copies

2

Content type

artist monograph, 

catalogue

Chapter headings

In Pursuit of Something between the Self and the Universe - Mami KATAOKA, 片岡真実

'Melancholic Echo': Lee Bul's Incorporations - Akira Mizuta LIPPIT

Lee Bul: Memory of a Collapsed Utopia - WOO Jungah, 우정아

Interview with Lee Bul (Interviewer: Nicolaus Schafhausen)

LEE BUL: From Me, Belongs to You Only
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LEE BUL: From Me, Belongs to You Only, イ.ブル展:私からあなたへ、わたしたちだけに