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school to work as an assistant in a commercial production company, Lee realized that she would not take that path. While in search for a career path that would allow her to fully express her creativity, she worked on a photography exhibition as a project that helped her attain her bachelor's degree. This led her to find her niche, photography, and to continue her studies on the topic going into graduate school.
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This work addresses common worries, insecurity, and doubts that we experience in our daily lives. Unlike most of her other works, that involve a single photograph, Lee has taken two photographs as well as a video. The video features a performer making a strange noise, which is the phrase “it’s okay”
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Lee's first group exhibition took place in 2007, in her home country Korea. In addition to having her first solo exhibition in Korea in 2009, she branched out and had her first solo exhibitions abroad in 2014. She now holds exhibitions both group and solo around the world and has had exhibitions in
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Lee's art can be broken down into building, capturing, and then destroying. She uses the process of building the set as a way to relax herself from social repression and frustration, and to reflect about her inner conflicts, seeking to express them outwards. She then uses photography as a medium to
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JeeYoung Lee grew up aspiring to be a painter, and enrolling in an art highschool was her first step to making it a reality. She then attended Hongik
University to pursue a degree in Visual Communication Design. At the time, she was interested in film production art, but after taking a break from
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Lee is known for her surreal images, which she creates by physically transforming her studio space into intricate and imaginative dreamscapes using hand-constructed props and then photographing them without digital manipulation. Restrained by conventional photography medium, Lee added plastic
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It takes about two to three months for Lee to complete one of her works. She works in a small, 12 x 14 x 8 feet studio to create the entirety of her elaborate scenes, removing the need for any photoshop at the end.
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