Installation view of "Bodiless Travels" series
       
     
       
     
 In the exhibition “ Something Between Air and Light” , five bodies of works in a series titled  Bodiless Travels  (2024) by artist Juyon Lee are presented.  Bodiless Travels  is a multimedia series composed of woven photographs sculpted in glass, Ko
       
     
 Image Body Drift
       
     
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Coffin filled with artificial flower (Korea Cancer Center Hospital) and light entering studio (I-Park, Connecticut)
       
     
Negative Translations I and II
       
     
Woven Distance (6834.10 mi/10,998.42 km) Translations
       
     
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Bodiless Light [37.63006841335722, 127.0832890811403, 23:36 KST and 44.627382506077524, -72.1262420140601, 101923, 16:08 EST]
       
     
Installation view of "Bodiless Travels" series
       
     
Installation view of "Bodiless Travels" series

Left:

Woven Distance (6834.10 mi/10,998.42 km) Translations

Right front:

Bodiless Light [37.63006841335722, 127.0832890811403, 23:36 KST and 44.627382506077524, -72.1262420140601, 101923, 16:08 EST]

Right rear:

 Image Body Drift

Lee’s works in the exhibition Something Between Air and Light are supported by Foundation for Contemporary Arts.

       
     
"Bodiless Travels" series at TCNJ Gallery

Bodiless Travels (2024) series video documentation

TCNJ Gallery, Ewing, New Jersey

The series is composed of the following works:

Woven Distance (6834.10 mi/10,998.42 km) Translations

(Mixed media work on white wall)

Bodiless Light [37.63006841335722, 127.0832890811403, 23:36 KST and 44.627382506077524, -72.1262420140601, 101923, 16:08 EST]

(Hanging glass with neon tubing)

Image Body Drift

(Mixed media multi-part installation in the back of the gallery)

Coffin filled with artificial flower (Korea Cancer Center Hospital) and light entering studio (I-Park, Connecticut)

(White hanging glass against grey wall)

Negative Translations I and II

(Two black glass on grey wall)

 In the exhibition “ Something Between Air and Light” , five bodies of works in a series titled  Bodiless Travels  (2024) by artist Juyon Lee are presented.  Bodiless Travels  is a multimedia series composed of woven photographs sculpted in glass, Ko
       
     

In the exhibition “Something Between Air and Light”, five bodies of works in a series titled Bodiless Travels (2024) by artist Juyon Lee are presented. Bodiless Travels is a multimedia series composed of woven photographs sculpted in glass, Korean mulberry paper and fiberglass cured in resin, neon, steel, and more. For each woven imagery, two photographs were woven by hand: a photograph of the funeral of the artist’s grandfather (i.e. a body wrapped by Korean mulberry paper, in the form of Buddhist lotus flower; an empty coffin filled with artificial flowers in Korea) and a photograph from where the artist was physically present during the time of the funeral (i.e. light entering a studio). The hand-woven photographs are re-photographed and printed on glass, paper, and other media. Original images were taken by phones and circulated via text between the artist and her family. Through the layered process of rephotographing, sculpting, and lighting, the images are further objectified as the sculptural bodies materialize the experience of distance and grief. The condensation of memory in glass, resin, and other media appear fragmented, flowing, and morphing over time. The works are in a cyclical arrangement with multiple entryways, allowing visitors to experience and revisit the works in their chosen sequence.

 Image Body Drift
       
     
Image Body Drift

2024

Resin, photograph of handwoven photographs on fiberglass and hanji (Korean mulberry paper), steel, spherical magnets, glass, lighting

Dimensions variable (Space: 21ft 6 in x 35 ft x 14 ft (h)) 

Lee_Juyon-4.jpg
       
     
Lee_Juyon-5.jpg
       
     
Coffin filled with artificial flower (Korea Cancer Center Hospital) and light entering studio (I-Park, Connecticut)
       
     
Coffin filled with artificial flower (Korea Cancer Center Hospital) and light entering studio (I-Park, Connecticut)

2024

Photograph of handwoven photographs in fused glass

Dimensions variable (20 in x 14.5 in x 2 in)

Negative Translations I and II
       
     
Negative Translations I and II

2024

Photograph of handwoven photographs on black glass

Dimensions: Negative Translations I (Left): 8 x 5 x ⅛ in; Negative Translations II (Right): 7 ¾  x 5 ⅜ x ⅛ in)

Woven Distance (6834.10 mi/10,998.42 km) Translations
       
     
Woven Distance (6834.10 mi/10,998.42 km) Translations

2024

Resin, photographs of handwoven photographs on fiberglass and tinted glass, steel, spherical magnets, glass, lighting

Dimensions variable (Resin fiberglass photo with steel and glass: 38 × 78 in; Glass photo: 20.5 x 14.5 x 1.75 in)

Lee_Juyon-9.jpg
       
     
Bodiless Light [37.63006841335722, 127.0832890811403, 23:36 KST and 44.627382506077524, -72.1262420140601, 101923, 16:08 EST]
       
     
Bodiless Light [37.63006841335722, 127.0832890811403, 23:36 KST and 44.627382506077524, -72.1262420140601, 101923, 16:08 EST]

Detail view

2024

Photograph of handwoven photographs on opalescent glass, krypton, glass tubing, electrical cable, rubber end caps, transformer