Min-ho Lee Exhibition

Gallery Yamaki Fine Art

[Image: Min-ho Lee, “Fil blanc n 47” inkjet print 60 x 60 cm]

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Min-ho Lee (1959-) is an artist from Seoul, Korea. In 1990 she started her career as a painter in Paris, before becoming fascinated by photography in the late 1990’s. Her consistent theme is “lost identity and anonymity.” In this exhibition, Lee’s recent series of works dealing with “thread” are presented. This motif is unique due to its possibility of having its two ends in different times and places, like in the myth “Ariadne’s Thread.” A labyrinth the likes of which Theseus goes into imposes on us “infinite repetition,” or the (im-) possibility of finding the exit, she says. The series “Fil Rouge (Red Thread)” recalls that Greek myth with a small clue wandering into a labyrinthine space, while “Fil Blanc” indicates her own interpretation of the story. A huge white clue suggests the way of our existence today, independent of any time and space.
In the myth a clue led Theseus to the exit, while in her works it tries to leave a trace in vain, by traveling somewhere without any indication to particular locations or any certainty that it has an exit at all.
Exposed in the middle of the labyrinth, however, this huge clue looks bewildered as well as somehow relaxed, which may indicate that we, floating “in the absolute of homogeneous space”, are accepting in confusion a new way of existence not bound by any connection to reality rather than trying to restore it as it used to be.
By highlighting the dual anonymity of time/space and humanity, this series of works resulting from her consistent exploration symbolizes effectively our experience of existence today as a kind of “(absent) mythology” of the contemporary world.