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Lee Bul

LEE BUL

Untitled National Gallery of Victoria | NGV 16 September 2024–19 January 2025 Melbourne
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Lee Bul is a Korean artist and leading figure in the contemporary art world. Since the late 1980s, Bul’s installations and sculptures have drawn from the visual languages of science fiction, anime and manga to explore the social constructions of the human body. Bul creates monsters and cyborgs that deconstruct binaries across gender, nature and artifice. These hybrid creatures occupy a strange, but awe-inspiring alternative reality as they extend and re-configure human and animal forms to produce new, unsettling beings

Produced for the NGV in 2004, Untitled is being shown at the Gallery for the first time in over a decade. The work, which is the most complex of Bul’s monsters, comprises a central body from which other parts of the form explode outwards into space. Suspended, these parts create an uncanny form that beckons its audience into a techno-fantastical future where new, uncategorisable species transcend the present reality.

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About the Artist

Lee Bul (b. 1964, Yeongju, South Korea) works across performance, sculpture, drawing, painting, installation, architecture, and video. Her work engages themes of utopian and dystopian imagination, technological transformation, modernity’s failures, and the fragility of human ambition, often through cyborg bodies, architectural fragments, and speculative landscapes. She lives and works in Seoul and is widely regarded as one of the most influential artists of her generation.

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The National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) is a major public art museum in Naarm/Melbourne, Australia, and the country’s oldest and most visited gallery. Founded in 1861, the NGV now holds more than 75,000 works spanning First Nations, Australian and international art, design, and architecture, making it one of the most significant collections in the region.

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