KANG SEUNG LEE

The genealogies represented in his work manifest themselves in a variety of information from disparate sources. His most recent projects are inspired by the lives and work of Asian and Asian-American queer artists who have died of HIV/AIDS, such as Tseng Kwong Chi, Oh Joon-soo and Martin Wong. In these projects, kinship and intimacy take the form of care, and question the erasure of queer figures who preceded it and remain invisible today. This process allows other historical voices to emerge. These counter-narratives create spaces that preserve intergenerational memories, making it possible to coexist in multiple temporalities.

Lee’s work is in the collections of Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul; Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; and Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence.

^{Text courtesy Palais de Tokyo}