Introduction

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Lee KyungHee graduated from the Department of Painting at Kyounghee University in 1991. She then graduated from the Department of Plastic Arts at Versailles Beaux-Arts in France in 1995, and the Department of Plastic Arts at the Paris XIII University in 1998. Lee held her first solo exhibition in 1994 at Gallery Carres in Versailles, France, and has since had eight solo shows. Moreover, since her first group exhibition at Gallery Art Present in Paris in 1994, she has participated in several group shows per year in various countries of Europe as well as the United States. She studied and worked in Paris, France from 1991 to 2019, and now works and lives in Korea.

 

“(..) Paint. Soliloquize. Talk to myself. (..)” – From the artist’s notes

Lee ruminates on each unbearably shining moment of her youth, memories of countless conflicts between reason and emotion, and perhaps secret stories, which she stitches together and connects into metaphoric forms, borrowing the dual characteristics of the thread and the needle—puncture and comfort.
The recordings, gathered piece by piece through the repeated action of the thread following the wounds made by the needle, and comforting them, are stored deep down, buried in color, while something timid repeatedly adds color, erases and rubs along the traces of the needle and thread, hoping that the stitches will be revealed as little as possible. In this manner of repetition, the artist intends to paint a kind of secret language, by borrowing the moments of chance and inevitability that emerge.  

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