Lee Miju's Solo Exhibition "Exploration Life: Hidden Threads"
At Seojeong Art Seoul Until April 30
Seojeong Art will hold Lee Miju's solo exhibition "Exploration Life: Hidden Threads" from the 21st to April 30th at Seojeong Art Seoul. The exhibition showcases the artist's work, which continues to seek new interpretative possibilities by discovering hidden clues in familiar daily life. Through 20 sculptures and paintings, it reveals the process of reinterpreting everyday life and weaving narratives.
Lee Miju expressed scenes where brief moments, often passed by unconsciously, accumulate to form personal experiences, much like drawing a pictorial diary. She captured the process in which trivial experiences, such as strolling along the beach on a summer night or the tactile sensation of petting a dog, become a quiet force that sustains life. The artist focuses on how this "soft power" fills the gaps in daily life and shapes the structure of living.
The exhibition title is borrowed from "Exploration Life," a homework assignment distributed to elementary school students during vacations from 1979 to 1998. The artist revisits daily life by playfully exploring and varying the clues discovered in everyday moments.
The first floor of the exhibition space features sculptures such as bloodshot eyes and matches, expanded from paintings. It creates a tense atmosphere as if a special event has occurred, making visitors feel the blurred boundary between reality and imagination. The sculpture "Seolin" is an important narrative device in the artist's work world. Introverted yet possessing a strong inner self, it quietly observes the narrative of the exhibition space.
On the second floor, the image of a girl moving intertwined with various objects underwater unfolds. Lee Miju explained, "Seolin has disappeared from sight but exists in a form that seems to have become one with the girl through a process of transformation and expansion via solidarity."
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