YANGHEE LEE

Through the exhibition, Axis and Foot—the title inspired by one of the 12 practices devised by Lee—she carefully unravels the core realm of Korean traditional dance. Within the movement, Lee ‘weaves, undoes, grasps and releases’ the physical parts of her body while ‘contracting, extending, maintaining and ascending,’ investigating the relationship between the body and environment.

Axis and Foot, which presents four video works based on this direction, confronts the essential question of ‘the beginning of dance’ as Lee perceives the center of the traditional dance in Korea with the attitude of a researcher and experiments with its principles.

Yanghee Lee is an artist who shares her artistic expressions with the language of performing art, creating temporary theaters, and presenting her work in the form of exhibitions. Recently, she has been working on video and performance works that explore the aggregate that constitutes dance—the body, pleasure, and form.

Lee received her Bachelor’s Degree in Korean Traditional Dance (1998) at Ewha Woman’s University and her MA in Dance Education (2007) at New York University. Lee, currently, is the artistic director of Choreographic and an associated artist at Theatre C and The Syndicate in New York.

Including the solo exhibition IN (Whistle Seoul, 2024), Dusk (Art Sonje Center, 2016), Gesamtkunstwerk (Samcheonggak,2019), Hail (d/p, 2020), A Hedonist (Choreographic, 2022), Yanghee Lee has participated in group exhibitions such as Good Morning, Mr. Orwell (Nam June Paik Art Center, 2024), Landscape of Life: How Are You Today? (Ulsan Art Museum, 2023), Post Media and Site (Busan Museum of Art, 2023), including other group exhibitions. Lee’s most well-known works are Aficionado, Twixt, Twig, Hedonist, Hail, Gesamtkunstwerk, Dusk, Unlearn: The Form and Cliché.