Gihak ArtLab
LEE Jo-Mei
LEE Jo-Mei’s practice is mainly based on sketches, painting and three-dimensional sculptures. She looks to depict how we gaze on the texture of objects throughout the everyday experience to explore the sense of memory’s own landscape. From 2015 to the present, the artist has been focusing on the exploration of nature and materials. She loves observing plants and the mysterious notches or small cuts in plants to perceive the sense of time of plants from her own micro view. In this way, her artworks are presented with a particular poetic lyric.
◇ Artist's Website: https://creepinglights.tumblr.com/
◇ Residency Period: May 10, 2021─Jun 30, 2021
2021 Season 3 Residency Sharing Session
I let myself be a leaf to settle in the environment.
This May, I came to Hualien and settled in a renovated military fortress in Yanliao. When you cross the Hualien Bridge on Provincial Highway 11, the first turn you see will lead you to the sea, which is rough and difficult to drive through; however, it seems to be a passage leading to a unique time and space.
I found real peace here. I was here at the perfect season, with the waves hitting the shore at a steady rhythm, dividing the time of the day into more subtle intervals that continuously changed. During my two-month residency, I let myself be a leaf, and allowed these small changes to lead and settle me in the environment.
─ Excerpted from the residency notes of artist LEE Jo-Mei
Sharing Session: Jun 27, 2021
Event Venue: The Sharing Session will be held on Google Meet