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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 (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, 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.
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))
2024
Photograph of handwoven photographs in fused glass
Dimensions variable (20 in x 14.5 in x 2 in)
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)
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)
Detail view
2024
Photograph of handwoven photographs on opalescent glass, krypton, glass tubing, electrical cable, rubber end caps, transformer