Soo Hyun
Lee (b. 1998, Seoul, South Korea) is a visual artist based in London who works
with painting, video installation, and performance. She is currently pursuing
Master studies in MFA Fine Art, Goldsmiths, University of London. She graduated
from Korea University, Seoul, with a BFA in Fine Art major degree and BA in
Sociology major degree in 2022.
The Artist is interested in the social values and beliefs created in the world and how
individuals relate and react to those. The artist especially explores the
social values and beliefs that are hard to define singularly, however
significantly influencing an individual's life, such as eternity, hope, shame,
love and caring. Through her investigation, the artist questions how each
people's perspective and experience could differently define these kinds of
values.
The
artist's recent work is taking an interest in caring. Her interest in caring
reveals diverse sensualities of it, such as caring being addictive and
self-destructive or being a step toward understanding and forgiveness.
In her
latest series, "Why are you doing this to yourself" the artist
explores her obsession with caring and understanding others, who are impossible
to provide feedback if she understood them clearly.
Furthermore,
the artist doubts her obsession with "Caring" if it contributes to the
traditional feminity in Patriarchal perspectives. Moreover, Lee expands the discussion of Women's caring as a woman's subjective desire and shifts the images of patriarchal views toward women's care.
After
moving to London, based on her experience as an Asian bilingual speaker, she is
applying the dynamic of language and communication in her art practice. The
artist also questions how the impression of
language (accent, English skill, etc.) / language links to prejudice,
suppression and racism toward Asians.