Jung Lee

Aporia

'Aporia' means 'coming to a dead end' in Greek. The cry for love faintly spreading across the desolate places indicates the dead end of 'love' that cannot be solved with logic and philosophy. Jung Lee expects viewers to have a short but impressive trip daydreaming of their own love stories through this combination of neon, landscape and text.

The series 'Aporia' takes its motif from 'A Lover's Discourse' by Roland Barthes. In this essay, Barthes discusses the dilemma experienced by people who fall in love. If you fall in love, your beloved becomes a sort of mystery so that you will ceaselessly try to figure out the reasons for your feelings for him or her and to interpret them. The desire to express your love produces lies and conflicts and leads to a dead end that is a love. As you endlessly consume the trite words of love, the object of your affection will eventually become the love itself instead of love. The sweet nothings being reiterated in the air, unable to reach anyone between you and me, seem to ironically reveal the solitude and sorrow of people in contemporary society.

Jung Lee began imaging the emptiness and lonesomeness behind the glowing neon signs of the city. And she started collecting the expressions of love and hatred that can be commonly found on the internet, TV or movies. What would happen if you took those common phrases into unknown deserted places? She created text with neon and placed them in this type of landscape. These hackneyed and banal phrases meet the deserted places – ushering you into a beautifully sparking moment.

Jung LEE (*1972, South Korea): Tell Me The Truth – Christophe Guye Galerie — Tell Me The Truth

Jung LEE (*1972, South Korea): Have You Ever Loved Me? – Christophe Guye Galerie — Have You Ever Loved Me?

Jung LEE (*1972, South Korea): You, You, You...... – Christophe Guye Galerie — You, You, You......

Jung LEE (*1972, South Korea): How Could You Do This To Me? – Christophe Guye Galerie — How Could You Do This To Me?

Jung LEE (*1972, South Korea): I Still Remember – Christophe Guye Galerie — I Still Remember

Jung LEE (*1972, South Korea): I Want To Be Your Love – Christophe Guye Galerie — I Want To Be Your Love

Jung LEE (*1972, South Korea): Only God Knows – Christophe Guye Galerie — Only God Knows

Jung LEE (*1972, South Korea): Truly, Truly, Yours – Christophe Guye Galerie — Truly, Truly, Yours

Jung LEE (*1972, South Korea): Why?#2 – Christophe Guye Galerie — Why?#2

Jung LEE (*1972, South Korea): Why? #3 – Christophe Guye Galerie — Why? #3

Jung LEE (*1972, South Korea): You Stole My Heart Away – Christophe Guye Galerie — You Stole My Heart Away

Jung LEE (*1972, South Korea): You Will Never Know How Much I Love You – Christophe Guye Galerie — You Will Never Know How Much I Love You

Jung LEE (*1972, South Korea): Promise Me – Christophe Guye Galerie — Promise Me

Jung LEE (*1972, South Korea): You #2 – Christophe Guye Galerie — You #2

Jung LEE (*1972, South Korea): The End #2 – Christophe Guye Galerie — The End #2

Jung LEE (*1972, South Korea): You Are In My Heart – Christophe Guye Galerie — You Are In My Heart

Jung LEE (*1972, South Korea): I Love You With All My Heart #2 – Christophe Guye Galerie — I Love You With All My Heart #2

Jung LEE (*1972, South Korea): Yours (Blue), 2021 – Christophe Guye Galerie — Yours (Blue), 2021

Jung LEE (*1972, South Korea): Heart (Purple), 2021 – Christophe Guye Galerie — Heart (Purple), 2021

Further Selected Works

Jung LEE (*1972, South Korea): LOVE #1 – Christophe Guye Galerie — LOVE #1

Jung LEE (*1972, South Korea): QUIET – Christophe Guye Galerie — QUIET

Jung LEE (*1972, South Korea): Sanyuhwa (The Poem ‘Flowers on the Hills’ by Kim Sowol) – Christophe Guye Galerie — Sanyuhwa (The Poem ‘Flowers on the Hills’ by Kim Sowol)

Jung LEE (*1972, South Korea): X – Christophe Guye Galerie — X