“Line on display”
Yona Lee
18 Mar → 16 Apr 2016
Using the architectural features of the Front Space gallery as a guide, Yona Lee’s new installation Line on display responds to the spatial dynamics of this particular gallery. Often seen as a transient space, Lee connects this experience with that of the psychological journey one takes when walking through a shopping mall or showroom. Utilizing merchandising display languages such as racks, hooks and prongs, Lee presents a number of manipulated slatwalls and anthropomorphic line sculptures – with found objects attached – she highlights our complex relationship with desire within the confines of commodity culture. Using steel structures that block or shift the viewer’s movements, Lee heightens the viewer’s bodily awareness in relationship to their surrounds.
Yona Lee lives and works in Auckland and holds an MFA from Elam School of Fine Arts (2010). Recent exhibitions include:Triptych, Rear Window, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin, 2015; Specific Objects, Blue Oyster Art Project Space, Dunedin, 2014; Tangential Structures, Enjoy Public Art Gallery, Wellington, 2013; Line Works, Artspace, Auckland, 2012;Composition, Te Tuhi Centre for the Arts, Auckland, 2012.
In 2016, Lee will undertake a residency at SeMA Nanji in Seoul, supported by Asia NZ foundation and will present a solo exhibition at Alternative Space LOOP in Seoul, South Korea. This exhibition is supported by Creative New Zealand