“SUPERNATURAL” Installation view at OCI Museum of Art ©OCI Museum of Art
As part of OCI Young Creatives 2023, OCI Museum of Art’s emerging artist support program, SUPERNATURAL, a solo exhibition by Lee Jeong Keun(b. 1989) will be on view from August 10 to September 9.
Lee uses photography as his main medium, and the works in this exhibition are mostly photographs contained within steel sculptures. The frames surrounding the photographs are more prominent than the photographs due to the massive steel sculptures. This tendency is driven by the artist’s experience of having his work destroyed by flooding in his studio. But the frames are not only protective, but also interact with the photographs inside the frame, leading to another direction. (2023) is based on the artist’s experience of a rat coming out of his house, and the path the rat must have taken to get there is imagined in the photograph. The photograph is contained within an iron sphere with countless horns, which in turn is placed on a blackened pedestal. To view Lee’s photographs in this way, the viewer is forced to examine the ambiguous relationship between the frame and the still image within.
During the same period, OCI Museum of Art will present Open the Window by Yang-Ha, and The Gangwon Pictorial Book by Kwangho Na, a solo exhibition as part of the ‘OCI Again’ program.
