Korean artist Jung Lee is showing her first exhibition in Dubai at Green Art Gallery. Lee has two series—Day and Night and Aporia, which means “coming to a dead end” in Greek.
The Aporia series was inspired by Roland Barthes’s A Lover’s Discoursem which tells the story of the ineptitudes of people in love. According to Barthes, when one falls in love the beloved becomes a mystery and one will ceaselessly try to figure out the reasons for their mysterious feelings. The desire to express one’s love produces lies and conflicts leading to a dead end. For Lee, those empty phrases reveal the solitude and sorrow of modern people today.
In the works entitled Day and Night, Lee focused on ‘God’ and ‘Love’ as the two main words reflecting her interpretation of Dante’s Divine Comedy where he highlighted the belief that true faith and love would lead you to heaven. Lee produces a cluster of those “divine” 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.
What: Aporia and Day and Night Series by Jung Lee
When: Through October 23, 2013
Where: Green Art Gallery, Al Quoz Industrial Area 1 – Dubai United Arab Emirates

One Comment
ivan noel on 07.30.2016 at 13:23 PM
This is a shameful scam. These photos are a a DIRECT plagiarism of Bernard Faucon’s ’80 photos ‘Les Paysages’. Mrs Jung, you are a sham, a scam, you should be ashamed at this appalling pretence. The idea, and down to the texts you have plagiarized Mr Faucon. You should be denounced.
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