Seong Eun Lee
Into the gray, 2020
Cotton thread, Silver thread, Polyester 63.5x90 (cm)
Man is by nature a social animal, an individual lives in social network with others inevitably. Recently, however, the modern people becomes more and more accustomed to living in non-contact communication through SNS, which can connect to each other only visually and superficially without sufficient emotional exchange. Such lack of emotional communication causes the people lost their existential ego-expression gradually, by being frozen into the unifying SNS media. Existentialism defined man as an individual existence itself not a mean for a something.
Seong Eun Lee
Eternal Web, 2020
Oganza, Cotton thread, Silver thread 400x160 (cm)
When we see the fog screening our city we would fall in feeling of the ambiguity. The fog can be seen only in a far way not nearby and so it is a illusive dreamy nature. Such a nature of fog is very similar to our human networking web behavior. We are feeling the ambiguity in social network extending endlessly that is growing as we lives in daily life. Particularly in modern life, the fog-like ambiguity of social networking web became the structural frame to give us feeling the uncertainty further.
Seong Eun Lee
Embrace, 2020
Cotton thread, Silver thread, Gauze, Bast fiber fabric 35.4" x 47.2"
Fiber materials are used to express the appearance of the city at dawn. The dawn of the city is covered with fog, and we feel like we are in the fog. The irregular weaving of various materials is reminiscent of buildings in modern society. This artwork is an installation work, and you can appreciate the light and space between the textures, which makes you feel as if you are looking at the back side of a city shrouded in fog.
