LEE JinJu

Conversations of Every Closed Lips
My work begins from questions thrown repeatedly in life. The negative events and emotions of the past, which were not even wanted, endlessly appear and disappear within the everyday life. What becomes the device which arouses memories from within the uncomfortable ‘ventilation’ one does not wish to face? What are the common structures of memories? In what way do memories, which survived without having been forgotten, manufacture? Why do people with Alzheimer not only lose memories of the past but cannot live the present and cannot imagine the future? Where are the boundaries between memories, dreams and conscience? What are the afterimages of images, made by my perception from cognitive force of memory surpassing time and space, like? What becomes visible during the process of inner quest starting from these questions are recorded as my work.

Life wanders, but memories remain.
It is like an isolated island which one can wander anywhere, not knowing where it begins nor ends.
Vulnerable eyes that penetrate time and space which exist everywhere and exist nowhere.
Subtle objects manifested into sets of memories made in lumps like free associations.
A world which sustains one another in broken-down forms, isolated, breaking-down, implicative and at the same time, not concealing.

From the superfluousness cut from a well-made frame, following their softly soundless stories, cuddling the insignificant and petty motifs of the everyday, I discover the unconscious sensuous layer that is hidden inside. At that moment, I become a melancholic adventurer and the everyday is reborn into things of the extraordinary.

LEE JinJu
Born in    1980, Busan, Korea

EDUCATION
2014    M.F.A, Oriental Painting, College of Fine Arts, Hongik University, Seoul, Korea
2003    B.F.A, Oriental Painting, College of Fine Arts, Hongik University, Seoul, Korea

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITION
2014    JINJU LEE, DOOSAN Gallery  New York, New York, USA
2011    Evanescing, In-Evanescing, Gallery Hyundai 16bungee, Seoul, Korea　
2010    A Way to Remember , Gallery Hyundai  Window Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2008    Story of Silence, Gallery JungMiSo, Seoul, Korea
2006    Patternholic, Gallery DOS, Seoul, Korea

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITION
2013    Permeated Perspective: Young Korean Painters, DOOSAN Gallery
             New York, New York, USA
             Girls’ Generation, Space Cottonseed, Space Cottonseed, Singapore
             片鱗 편린 ( Li YiWen – Lee Jinju Duo Show), Space CAN Beijing, Beijing, China
             Real Landscape, True Reflection , OCI Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2012    On Manner of Forming, Edwin’s Gallery, Jakarta, Indonesia
             Soul of Seoul, Gallery S.E, Bergen, Norway
2011    What i saw, Project Space SARUBIADABANG, Seoul, Korea
             Monologues’, Korean Cultural Centre, London, UK
2010    Wonderful Pictures, IlMin Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2009    Just ART, SungGok Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea