As an artist, Lee Jeeyoung (Geum Beollae) has focused on concepts of dwelling and how humanity assigns meaning to materiality: objects, spaces, and images. In this sense, she is interested in the material culture and diverse forms of commemoration practices of the May 18th People’s Uprising (that occurred in Gwangju, South Korea in 1980) and does curating and research.
Geum Beollae participated in the exhibition Strange Attractor at Pavilhão Branco︎︎︎ (Municipal Galleries, Lisbon) in 2021-22. In 2021, she has co-curated the exhibition Before the Law, about the May 18 trial and worked as a visiting researcher at the May 18 Research Institute. Also, she is one of the authors of the book POST 5·18.
selected work
Monotonous and Continuous Scenery, 2015
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Debris of demolished house, porcelain replica
© Youngtae Kim
Alchemy of Night, 2015
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Light, curtain, mirror, machine structure, two porcelain replicas of debris of demolished house, humidity, damp smell, dust, cobweb, small insects, feces
© Youngtae Kim
Unrefined, flaw, superstition, indolence, indetermination, 2021
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Hair of various people, Mongolian horse hair, water, clay, mold, rice, spoon, shaman's table for rice fortunetelling, baked rice bowls, soil from various sites, stones from various sites, porcelain replica of demolished house debris, clay sculptures crafted by water, cotton-stuffed winter blanket from artist’s grandmother, body fluid, human nails, cat nails, cat fur, nibbled leaves, mechanical devices, wooden structures, chopsticks, bronze bowls, gold pigment powder, ground mixture with the artist’s father’s dead tissue and hair, urinal container, plastic bags, mushrooms, water sprinkler, spray paint, acrylic pipe, crystals, beads, a ring that someone lost, poem
© Bruno Lopes
Before the Law, 2021
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Exhibition and workshop co-curating
Special exhibition for the 10th anniversary of the UNESCO Memory of the World registration of the May 18 archives (Human Rights Documentary Heritage 1980 Archives for the May 18th Democratic Uprising against the Military Regime, in Gwangju, Republic of Korea)
This exhibition was created with people who participated in the May 18th people’s uprising, and those imprisoned and tried in court under the military regime. It contains their trial records and interviews. Two products were created through workshops: one book, written by a participant, about his older brother who was a civilian militiaman and who committed suicide after his release from prison; and another being a five-episode podcast about a lady who did a street broadcast during the uprising.
Courtesy of the curator.
Debris of demolished house, porcelain replica
© Youngtae Kim
Alchemy of Night, 2015
Light, curtain, mirror, machine structure, two porcelain replicas of debris of demolished house, humidity, damp smell, dust, cobweb, small insects, feces
© Youngtae Kim
Unrefined, flaw, superstition, indolence, indetermination, 2021
Hair of various people, Mongolian horse hair, water, clay, mold, rice, spoon, shaman's table for rice fortunetelling, baked rice bowls, soil from various sites, stones from various sites, porcelain replica of demolished house debris, clay sculptures crafted by water, cotton-stuffed winter blanket from artist’s grandmother, body fluid, human nails, cat nails, cat fur, nibbled leaves, mechanical devices, wooden structures, chopsticks, bronze bowls, gold pigment powder, ground mixture with the artist’s father’s dead tissue and hair, urinal container, plastic bags, mushrooms, water sprinkler, spray paint, acrylic pipe, crystals, beads, a ring that someone lost, poem
© Bruno Lopes
Before the Law, 2021
Exhibition and workshop co-curating
Special exhibition for the 10th anniversary of the UNESCO Memory of the World registration of the May 18 archives (Human Rights Documentary Heritage 1980 Archives for the May 18th Democratic Uprising against the Military Regime, in Gwangju, Republic of Korea)
This exhibition was created with people who participated in the May 18th people’s uprising, and those imprisoned and tried in court under the military regime. It contains their trial records and interviews. Two products were created through workshops: one book, written by a participant, about his older brother who was a civilian militiaman and who committed suicide after his release from prison; and another being a five-episode podcast about a lady who did a street broadcast during the uprising.
Courtesy of the curator.