Recently graduated forom Seoul’s Hongik University, JeeYoung Lee shoots the invisible. She has the ability to add to each photo a plastic creativity and a theatrical performance. From these surreal and dreamlike pictures emerges her determination to share stories from her own life as well as various korean fables. She creates, as a faber of dreams, each scene with a multitude of handmade props, suspended objects amd unique lightning requirements. Lee opens her first European exhibition at Opiom Gallery in Opio, near Cannes (France), titled “State of Mind” starting february 7, 2014, this will be her first European exhibition.
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Anxiety (Diptyque/Diptych)

Black Birds: as Hyewon Yi, Director and Curator of Amelie A. Wallace Gallery states, “Drawing upon prodigious powers of imagination, she labors for months to create effects that seem to expand and contract physical space. And always, a lone figure inhabits and completes her narratives. Jee Young Lee assumes the roles of set designer, sculptor, performer, installation artist, and photographer ? and she executes them all magically.”
Last Supper: last Supper conflates the Christian image of the meal that foreshadows Jesus? impending demise with the competition for limited resources illustrated by hundreds of rats racing toward the table from which the artist appears to be rescuing a plate of cheese.

My chemical romance: many pipe lines crawl on the building walls of the artist?...