Lee Hansol
Oben, 2025
Mixed media
55 x 110 x 110 cm
Unique Works
Certificate of Authenticity included
Frame not included
Signature: unsigned
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Oben begins from small inconveniences in everyday life. When ordinary structures-such as subway handles, kitchen cabinets, or doors-suddenly feel unfamiliar or physically challenging, they remind us that the relationship between body and space is culturally constructed. This moment of estrangement extends into a reflection on positionality and identity. The structure hints at the possibility of ascending upward, yet simultaneously forms a paradoxical and unstable foundation that permits swaying. These coexisting conditions-rising and wavering, possibility and instability-become a metaphor for the process of adjusting one’s own center and constructing identity within an unfamiliar environment.
Lee Hansol
Germany
Lee Hansol’s work begins with observing the fissures and moments of estrangement that surface within everyday life. She focuses on unstable instances in which the ordinary order falters, exploring the layered meanings embedded in these scenes. Her life in Germany further deepened and expanded her mode of observation, making it more nuanced and multifaceted. The process of adjusting emotions and perceptions in a new environment introduced ongoing tension and shifts in his perspective. These experiences broadened her understanding of the world and offered opportunities to rethink objects and environments through different sensibilities. Working across various media-including painting, video, and installation-her artistic practice reconstructs scenes and concepts grounded in lived experience and observation, evolving into experiments that reorganize them into new forms.