Seulgi Lee

PERFECT CLOUD

Name: PERFECT CLOUD - Seulgi Lee
Brand: Keijiban
Price: 22000.000000 JPY
Availability: InStock

2023

Hand-embroidered silk kaga-temari and glass pedestal in a box

Ball diameter: 6 cm
Box: 6.8 x 6.8 x 7.3 cm

Edition of 50 copies numbered and signed by the artist, plus 3 artist’s proofs

Related edition: YAMA MO SATO MO

Price

€165.00

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The edition

This edition is made using traditional Kaga-temari techniques, a craft unique to Kanazawa and its surrounding area. Temari are embroidered silk balls with a bell at the center. Originally used for games, these balls have become decorative objects across the centuries, enabling young women to practice a wide repertoire of ornamentation. PERFECT CLOUD uses a typical Kaga-temari motif that combines squares and triangles. By covering a sphere, the three elementary shapes are thus brought together, in a tribute to classical geometry as well as Zen. Usually richly colored, the temari ball is monochrome here, allowing light to catch its surface differently depending on the orientation of the threads. While conforming to tradition, Lee’s choice of all-white seems to imbue this ancient motif with the virginity of a snowflake.

The artist

Seulgi Lee was born in 1972 in Seoul. She currently lives in Paris.

Since the mid-1990s, Seulgi Lee has been developing an essentially three-dimensional and performative body of work that maintains a dialogue with various forms of craftsmanship. Through collaborations with artisans in different parts of the world, she creates installations, sculptures and functional objects, often with minimal forms and vivid colors, whose fabrication process is nourished by her anthropological research, her interest in language, and her sense of humor. For example, Lee has developed a project with a cooperative of basket-weavers in a Mexican village that is home to a vernacular language spoken by only four people; she has produced a series of candles with a ancient candle factory in the south of France; she has worked with the last potter of the Moroccan Rif to continue the tradition of making pots with animal dung. Seulgi Lee is also particularly renowned for her work with “nubi,” the traditional Korean blankets for which she has designed motifs that refer to vernacular proverbs. This series has led to numerous collaborations, including with Hermes and Ikea.

Seulgi Lee has exhibited in various international institutions and biennales, such as Palais de Tokyo (Paris, France), La Criée centre d’art contemporain (Rennes, France), Incheon Art Platform (Seoul, Korea), La Casa da Cerca (Almada, Portugal), Kadist Foundation (San Francisco, USA), and the Gwangju Biennale. She won the Korea Artist Prize in 2020.

She is represented by Galerie Jousse Entreprise, Paris and Galerie Hyundai, Seoul, Korea.

The exhibition