Nationality South Korea | ||
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Known for Video art, Installation art, New media art | ||
Jinjoon Lee (born 1974 in Masan, South Korea) is a London based Korean artist and a designer working in a wide range of media, including sculpture, drawings, photo, video, sound and installation, to explore the perception of utopian ideologies. After graduating from Seoul National University in Seoul, he went on to study moving image and lighting installation at the Royal College of Art in London. Since giving his debut solo exhibition at ARKO Art Centre of Arts Council Korea in 2008, Lee has exhibited at numerous venues worldwide including Seoul Metropolitan Museum, Korea National Museum, India International Centre, The Prague National Gallery in Czech, The National Museum of Bulgaria, Royal College of Art and Royal College of Music in London. He is a full-fledged member of Royal British Society of Sculptors (RBS). Lee’s studio is perhaps best known for the public media sculpture They, which was permanently installed at Digital Media City ,Seoul in the 2010 ,and works on the architectural design and development of innovative projects for various requests around the world.
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He is a visual artist who emphasises the crossing of the past and the present, and of the real and the imagined, by creating a visual collage of stills, moving images. Jinjoon has been developing a body of work, examining sites with a traumatic past, recently he travelled to Hiroshima to document the Genbaku Dome, the Hiroshima Peace Memorial. He has been creating video collages, combining footage filmed in different locations and at different times, showing multiple viewpoint on the same vantage point. His video collaged deliberately expose the joins, in order to reveal the hidden scars within the landscape, often manifest within architecture. Jinjoon thought the multi-layering of images, wishes to explore the ambiguities of collective memory and experience through public and private perception, and the need to memorialise. The resulting ambiguity engenders a new type of deconstruction: of the notion of the sublime, which is questioned through a continuous journey between apparent proximity (transparency of the image) and effective distance (decoding its narrative connections). Art works of Drawing, Photo and Media Artworks are displayed at 10 different locations such as The Farjam Collection in DIFC in Dubai, a College of Engineering of Seoul National University, and Gallery Parkyoung at Paju, Korea. The MediaPublic Art Sculpture named “THEY” was installed at Digital Media City located at Sangam-Dong, Seoul in 2010 and became a permanent display since then. Proceeding with a study of Media Architecture jointly with many architects and lighting designers working from Germany, France, Italy, Japan, India, China, Korea and UK. As an art director, he successfully finished Seoul Gasan Digital Complex Media Façade Project in 2012. Currently works and resides in London, UK.