Exit 3 of Hyehwa station, 3pm

Leeje

Leeje, Exit 3 of Hyehwa station, 3pm, 2004/2024. 4 channel video, color, sound. 9 min 3 sec. Painting: Leeje, Text: Kang Heeyoung, Kim Songhui, Kim Jihyun, Leeje, Lim Hyunyoung, Voice: Kim Jihyun, Lee Jonghyun, Lim Hyunyoung, James Chae, Dawn Choi, Camera: GLIMWORKERS, Video editing: Kim Jinseong, Sound editing: Kang Minsuk. Commissioned by the 13th Seoul Mediacity pre-Biennale. Courtesy of the artist

After debuting in the early 2000s, Leeje began her career by making realistic figurative paintings on canvas that depicted Seoul’s changing urban landscape. Comprising a polyptych of six large canvases, Exit 3 of Hyehwa station, 3pm (2004) presents a panoramic landscape that documents a specific location and perspective in the city of Seoul. Looking back at her early paintings 20 years hence, the artist asks her colleagues to write essays containing their memories of the city and their own lives. These pictures and texts are reorganized into moving images, and the memories that surround us—anxieties of living in a rapidly changing city, ruminations on life following the death of a pet dog, loss of community, daily frustration or new hope—are transposed into abstract and synesthetic sounds, approaching what the author calls “painting-doing.”

Leeje (b. 1979, Seoul)

Leeje paints everyday experiences and dreamlike imaginations in an uncertain world. Her works examine images that capture contemporary emotions and explore the possibilities of painting as a medium for expansion. For the artist, “a painting” is an event that senses the ambiguity of existence and serves as a site of connection that resonates with reality outside, while “painting” is a performative practice that attempts to approach the time and space of various subjects in addition to keeping a distance from the expanding and dividing world. Since 2015, Leeje has been running non-profit art space Hapjungjigu and also participated in the 11th Seoul Mediacity Biennale, One Escape at a Time.

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