Mire Lee: Carriers
In her sculpture and installation work, Mire Lee uses machinery that operates by simple principles, along with materials that can be felt with the hands. In her sculpture and installation work, Mire Lee uses machinery that operates by simple principles, along with materials that can be felt with the hands. An artist who regards it as important to touch materials by hand as she works, Lee relies on purely physical cues to perceive the world.
For this exhibition, she imagines bodies as “carriers” to concretize her relationship to the substances she touches. For Lee, “carriers” is a word to describe a state of the human body, but it is also a concept that could be applied to her sculpture works. Lee’s new work Carriers (2020), which is being shown for the first time in the exhibition, is a large kinetic sculpture that uses a hose pump, with a form resembling an animal’s digestive organs. The installation/sculpture work repeats movements as it sucks up, transports, and extracts viscous matter. As the substance moves through the sculpture’s structure, sounds are produced at odd moments along with the rhythm of the machinery movements.
