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Let's Not Be Trash, 2019, Led channel sign board, 170ⅹ1550ⅹ20cm

LEE Kwangkee 

Let's Not Be Trash

❑ artist bio

Lee Kwangkee was born in 1971 in Busan, lives and works in Busan. He has BA in Sculpture from Dong-A University. His practice is focused on video, installation, and text based works. He had many solo exhibitions including: 1+1 & CROSS (2016) at Busan Gallery Form and Chasm of the World (2013) at Busan Citizens Hall. He is also invited to many prestigious international exhibitions including: Gwangju Media Art Festival (2018), Move on Asia: Video Art in Asia 2002-2012 (2013) at ZKM Karlsruhe, and 2010 Kuandu Biennale at Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts.

❑ introduction

Lee Kwangkee gets his inspiration and passion when he witnesses phenomena that do not make sense and system of the world that works more poorly than one would normally think during busy daily routines. The world works more ridiculously than what you may think(2016), for example, placed several turned on, expensive beam projectors that uses more than 400W per devise on top of each other then simply called it ‘heater.’ The world works shabbier than what you may think(2009) also presented a 110V fan running to turn only a small pinwheel using five combined transformers. These pieces tell us highly developed contemporary society’s backside is in fact either paradoxical or irrational even though it seems to be run by specialized and detailed system.

Lee also has created text works beside installation and videos. Made of decorative LED electronic display or neon sign, Only Cute Cause It’s Your Off-spring(2014) and Criminal Outsmarting Judge(2016), and Why did you do that(2017) are good examples. His text work, which he started to use more actively since 2010, offers his audience with opportunities to rethink about their lives and society they are living in as the work points the lack of ethics with some what blunt but intuitive remarks.

Like this, his messages are not light though such subject came from trivial situations we come across often. The work, he will present for 2019 Sea Art Festival, can be said an outcome after giving lot of thought within the category of regeneration on least ways in which one can involve with the matter of environment around themselves instead suggesting superficial logic of environmental issues. Installed on the outside wall of Dadae Incineration Plant where was no longer used since 2013, Let’s Not Be a Trash is a direct answer to the question to himself.