Lee Bul
Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain, Paris


The contemporary Korean artist Lee Bul comes to inhabit the Fondation Cartier in Paris with her sculptural work, meshing it daringly with the architecture of the space, designed by Jean Nouvel. Her works, suspended in mid-air or bolted to the floor, create a world of their own that simultaneously inhabits and cross-cuts with the conceptual framework of Nouvel's architectural space.

Though her art has evolved dramatically since the voluminous forms she created in the late 1980s, at heart, Lee Bul's work is based on a questioning of the boundaries between human reality, the mechanical, and the fantastical. With sound, video and objects, Bul's productions echo in form what they evoke in subject matter. Fittingly, the themes and expressions approached and tackled in her work are complex: though light of touch, their heart is tough and hard-hitting, as evidenced in the piece Thaw (Takaki Masao) (2007), an ice sarcophagus for Park Chung-Hee, the military dictator. Dreams – good and bad – mesh with reality for a striking echo on the contemporary world.


November 16, 2007 through January 27, 2008
261 boulevard Raspail
75014 Paris
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