Lee JiyenDrawings for Stain-Rainbow
Upcoming Exhibition
OPENINGThursday, 17 SEP, 12:00 - 19:30
on appointment22 SEP - 20 NOV
Showroom Zürich
Zum Vorderen Florhof / Hirschengraben 28
8001 Zürich
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The works of the Korean artist Jiyen Lee move at the interface of science, philosophical reflection and sensory perception. In the Zurich showroom, she presents a new series of works dedicated to the forms, structures and metamorphoses of crystals. From her residency in Göschenen, in the middle of the Alpine Swiss landscape, Lee develops a practice that combines geological observations with experimental materials research. She collected crystals on site, smashed them and used the splinters as pictorial material. This creates sculptural structures in which refraction, growth patterns and tectonic forces become visible. With the RGB group of works, Lee expands her research into the field of structural color. She uses a photonic crystal dispersion originally developed for counterfeit protection, whose nanoscale structure produces color through refraction and interference. Applied between acrylic sheets, unpredictable formations are created under pressure and flow, which fix a moment between intention and chance through UV curing. A distance from the background creates colored shadows and creates a double composition of image and light – painting as a constellation of material, space and perception.
