EXHIBITION

No one dies alone

Sabrina Amrani Gallery, Madrid, Madrid, 01/13/2016 - 02/28/2016

Madera 23, 28004 Madrid

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Sabrina Amrani presents ‘No one dies alone’, the second solo exhibition of APT Korean-American artist Timothy Hyunsoo Lee.

Bringing together a number of paintings and interventions, relocating the artist’s entire practice from a solipsistic introspection of traumatic memory and consciousness, towards a newfound extrospection; a process of cognition directed outward – a process of apprehending existents of the external world.

“No One Dies Alone” is born out of curiosity about the concreteness of existence outside of the space of consciousness, riddled as it is with unpredictable uncertainties and risks, and largely defined by the event horizon of finality which is mortality. This unidirectionality of time, cutting mysteriously through lived time, heading towards an unmistakable and certain end, yet absent from the internal processes of pure consciousness, is rich in material paradoxes. It animates Hyunsoo Lee’s quest to investigate the nature of images as a fleeting presence of memory, articulating an intermediate space between life and death. By means of this presence, more often ghostly and spectral, the artist is not only intervening time in order to slow or bypass death, but asking whether the experience of mortality, to which he turns to for the first time, is private or public, a solitary passing or a movement within a community? What role does personal extinction play in the community of memory?

In his own death portrait –a tradition in Korea, “Lotto Lotto (Farewell)” (2015), the artist covers his own portrait in gold leaf, then scratches it off to reveal the image, as if latently coming from another world, or being discovered in a distant future, or out of a fundamental break in the symmetry between past and future.

 

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APT ARTISTS ON VIEW

Timothy Hyunsoo Lee

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