The first solo exhibition of Korean artist Jung Lee in Dubai The Language of Complete Love and the Deep Solitude

Jung Lee / Once In a Lifetime, 2011, C-type Print, 136x170 cm / Courtesy of Green Art Gallery

Working across sculpture and photography, the exhibition will present works from both her 'Aporia' and 'Day and Night Series'. Lee slows everything down patiently analyzing that most intense and overwhelming of states, the language of complete love and the deep solitude.

Collecting cliched expressions of love and hatred, Lee places them in deserted landscapes in the form of neon text sculptures, mimicking cold neon signs so often found in cities. The result is a group of beautiful and melancholy empty landscape photographs, contrasting sentimental phrases such as 'I still remember', 'Once in a lifetime' and 'How could you do this to me?', with stark layouts of deserted plains or barren snow fields.

In the works entitled 'Day and Night', Lee focused on 'God' and 'Love' as the two main words reflecting the belief that true faith and love would lead you to heaven. Lee produces a cluster of words and places them floating over the sea as reproductions or in a heap, demonstrating one’s desire to salvation.

Thus Lee’s constructed photographs evoke amorous intensity with a coolness that enables the viewers to find their own way into this world, to have their memories stirred, to consider what it means to be alive in time.

Jung Lee / You, You, You..., 2010, C-type Print, 125x100 cm / Courtesy of Green Art Gallery

Jung Lee / Day and Night #2, 2012, C-type Print, 140x175 cm / Courtesy of Green Art Gallery

Jung Lee / How Could You Do This To Me, 2011, C-type Print, 136x170 cm / Courtesy of Green Art Gallery

Jung Lee / I Dream Of You, 2012, C-type Print, 170x136cm / Courtesy of Green Art Gallery

Jung Lee / I still Remember, 2010, C-type Print, 136x170 cm / Courtesy of Green Art Gallery

Jung Lee / Why #2, 2010, C-type Print, 136x170 cm / Courtesy of Green Art Gallery

Jung Lee / The End, 2010, C-type Print, 100x125 cm / Courtesy of Green Art Gallery

Jung Lee

Jung Lee (b. 1972, Seoul) received a B.A. from Kent Institute of Art & Design and an M.A. in Photography from the Royal College of Art. Select solo exhibitions include 'Day and Night' at One and J. Gallery, Seoul, Korea (2013) and a solo presentation at Frieze Art Fair, London (2011). Her work was included in numerous group exhibitions including 2012 Daegu Photo Biennale, the Incheon Women Artists Biennale, the 2010 Gwangju Biennale '10,000 Lives' under the direction of Massimiliano Gioni and the contemporary Korean photography exhibition 'Chaotic Harmony' at the Museum of Fine Arts (Houston). She has also shown at the Seoul Museum of Art and Gwangju Museum of Art. She is currently participating in 'Crossing Media - Der Kunst die Bühne' as part of the Esslingen Foto Triennale.