Interpretation of Medium

LEE & BAE presents 'Interpretation of Medium' an exhibition featuring artists Sangsun Bae, Inhee Jang, Hyojin Park, and Myunggyun You, who explore the expansion of thought through various medium. For these artists, materials are not merely tools of production but vital conduits for conveying intention, concept, and emotion. In this exhibition, viewers will encounter works crafted from diverse mediums such as resin, fabric, velvet, and mirror PET film; each embodying a distinct sculptural language. The exhibition investigates how medium function not only as means of expression but also as channels for thought and perception. Through meticulous experimentation with materiality, sculptural evocation of time, and engagement with ontological questions, the exhibition offers new possibilities for interpreting medium. Ultimately, it seeks to expand sensory awareness toward a “world beyond form.”

Dates

June 23, 2025 — August 8, 2025

Location

LEE & BAE, Busan

Hours

Tue — Sat, 10:00 — 18:00

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About the Artists

Myunggyun You

Busan, South Korea, b. 1962

When I come into contact with You Myung Gyun's work, I feel a certain "expansion" or “spatiality." How do I put it? The appearance, state, and spread of Mother Nature - those words come to mind. When his work is shown as a painting, I feel the world of “flow” in which the flow of time and the expansion of space becomes one. When shown as a three-dimensional work, I feel the world of “roots” that I will encounter if I go underground or to the state of the sources of life. Or in his installation work, I feel like I have encountered a big creature that appeared in the early stages of life. And in every work, "Human" is neither a shadow nor a figure. Perhaps, not yet. This work feels as though it is from the primitive world of nature before humans. Photosynthesis has a history of 3.2 billion years, but Homo sapiens are only 200,000 to 190,000 years old.

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Sangsun Bae

Hwasun, South Korea, b. 1971

Sangsun Bae has been making two types of paintings: one type made using blueblack ink and charcoal on white surfaces coated with gesso mixed with the blue-black ink, and another type made by drawing countless fine lines of gesso using a fine-point brush on surfaces of black velvet in a way that brings out the jet-black color. These works have their origins in abstracted profile lines extracted from figure sketches, and they thus carry a rhythm of organic lines that relate to the bonds that are formed between lives and also to her current knotted forms. Bae, who started off by drawing people in order to better understand herself, eventually developed an interest in the very movements of people. While exploring her thoughts through delving into the questions of what it means to be human and what it means to live, she eventually began to focus on the subtle changes in the air that occur between two posing models set in the different combinations of woman-woman, man-man, or man-woman. Here lies an important concept of Bae, who has discovered the imperceptible and indefinite aura or energy generated and exchanged between people that constantly shifts in direction and strength.

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Hyojin Park

Seoul, South Korea, b. 1974

Works of Hyojin Park resemble a sad monster. Sculptures supporting the base - such as Nike, David, Poseidon and Madonna - are the human figures or the humanlike god/goddess in mythology representing the paradise of humans. The white and blue porcelain represent the highest level of cultural products. Whereas the realistic paradise sustains the base, the splendid flowers in the upper part are the products of higher desire and show the untouchable and unattainable paradise. Colourful pigments pour out the crazy feast of flowers in full bloom splendidly in all season and in all times. However these bunches of flowers that burst out desire fiercely and breathlessly are fake flowers, ceased in the most impressive moment and show nothing but castrated desire. As the sculptures and white/blue porcelain are not authentic originals but reproduced imitations, the reality itself that we dream may not be real. Also although the idealization has the most brilliant image, it has been castrated and killed. The colours burst out weighed down like shedding blood and dropping tears. Hyojin Park’s works contains the sorrow gushing from both a transparent desire and a castrated desire. Her works crosses the best line between extreme beauties and reflects the monster’s eventual death from the unattainable desires. Above the elegance of the quiet pure white porcelain and the sculptures pursuing the best line of extreme beauty, the impressive flowers do not forget beauty nor wither, they are able to show the paradise contained within themselves even without exuding a scent. The thirst of the heartless youth is for the forgotten paradise. We already know that our desires can never be attained, and so our thirst for the failed paradise does not reduce. Redder than warm blood, brighter than gold, the glamorous colours of the flowers pitifully exudes sadness. Through the paint the perfect reality of the sculptures meets the unattainable paradise. Combined with the most beautiful form it has become a beautiful yet grotesque monster.

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Inhee Jang

Seoul, South Korea, b. 1979

Visual artist Inhee Jang received BFA form the School of Art Institute of Chicago and MFA and Ph.D from Hongik University. She more than 10 solo exhibitions and more than 60 group exhibitions including many kinds of international exhibitions and she had collaborated with many different field. Her artwork is about ‘the organic relation between moments and time’ and she has been using various materials and media to show this theme. Her art works cover drawing, painting, 3-D artwork, and installation.

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