Seong Eun Lee
Gridscape 01, 2024
Cotton yarn, Wool yarn, Acrylic yarn 30 x 45 x 10 (cm)
The grid is a common structure in everyday life and a fundamental organizational principle. From a material perspective, 'fiber' inherently symbolizes connection and weaving. In contemporary fiber art, the grid's composition method represents repetition and a continuous structure, allowing the sequential arrangement in contemporary fiber art to parallel individual elements without a particular logical conclusion, thus escaping the concept of center or focus. Just as various units in the work intertwine to form a strong structure, this piece reflects the complexity of our world formed by the interlocking of diverse elements.
Seong Eun Lee
Eternal Web, 2020
cotton thread, metal thread, oganza silk 150 x 400 x 30 (cm), installation art
Modern people live without even having time to think about the essential meaning of true 'existence'. This work is an installation artwork that embodies an inner space where viewers can enter the space of the ‘fog’ and think about existence. Opaque, achromatic colored organza silk has cut into various shapes of various sizes and formed into a huge net, creating a reminiscence of spread fog. A light organza silk moves fluidly and forms irregular shadows. Viewers can feel as if they are inside the fog itself by entering spaces between units.
Seong Eun Lee
15 to 24, 2022
cotton thread, silver thread, gauze, linen, bast fiber fabric, arylic 34 x 45 x 10 (cm)
is artwork that expresses the vitality and stability of plants growing indoors. By expressing the appearance of plants growing stably in acrylic with fibers, the inherent sense of structure of plants was further emphasized. Some plants in space maintain their life more stable.
Seong Eun Lee
Hold, 2022
cotton thread, metal thread, gauze, linen, bast fiber fabric 47 x 47 x 5 (cm)
is a artwork that expresses the vitality of plants and the fibers that connect each other in the browning phenomenon of plants. The sense of connection given by the word 'Hold' in the title of the artwork is an intrinsic communication that can be felt by both plants and humans.
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
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.
