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Lee Jeonglok : Nabi

Past exhibition
28 July - 21 August 2016
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Nabi 122 | (ed 2/7) | 2016 | C-Type Print | 120 x 160 cm (47 x 63 in)
Nabi 122 | (ed 2/7) | 2016 | C-Type Print | 120 x 160 cm (47 x 63 in)
Lee Jeonglok is a Korean artist who uses photography to create and record his world. He makes mysterious and evocative images of strange and magical events. These happen in carefully chosen, personally significant landscapes, realised by a thorough mastery of photographic technique.

Lee Jeonglok is a Korean artist who uses photography to create and record his world. He makes mysterious and evocative images of strange and magical events. These happen in carefully chosen, personally significant landscapes, realised by a thorough mastery of photographic technique.

 

The production of these pieces is a complex and painstaking process. These images are not made digitally, but by an 'in camera' technique. This means using long and multiple exposures, manipulating artificial light and deploying various props on site and in real time. The physicality and engagement of this process is important to the artist. He states that this effort allows him to reveal another, parallel world.

 

'Nabi', the butterfly, is a valued image and symbol. It is an interlocutor to the spiritual world, somewhere that is significant for this artist to locate and reveal in his work. This image, created out of light, multiplies into clusters and bunches, forming clouds that glow and sparkle in the landscape. Existing only for an instant, the length of a photoflash, these 'Nabi' express something other, a world conjured out of the artist's perception and now revealed to us.

 

Lee Jeonglok references the following text as describing the essential sense of these haunting photographic pieces.

 

'There is a hidden world
Where souls live.
When fog of death falls,
The journey is charted.
On the timeless journey
A guiding light dances.
A light that has disappeared from conscious memory 

But is seen in the selfless state.'

 

'Journey of Souls' Michael Newton

 

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Works
  • Nabi 130 (ed 1/7), 2016 C-Type Print 120 x 160 cm 47 x 63 in
    Nabi 130 (ed 1/7), 2016
    C-Type Print
    120 x 160 cm
    47 x 63 in
  • Nabi 125 (ed 1/7), 2016 C-Type Print 120 x 160 cm 47 x 63 in
    Nabi 125 (ed 1/7), 2016
    C-Type Print
    120 x 160 cm
    47 x 63 in
  • Nabi 124 (ed 1/7), 2016 C-Type Print 120 x 160 cm 47 x 63 in
    Nabi 124 (ed 1/7), 2016
    C-Type Print
    120 x 160 cm
    47 x 63 in
Installation Views
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Videos
  • Studio Process | Lee Jeonglok

    Studio Process | Lee Jeonglok

    Nabi Lee Jeonglok showcases his unique "in camera" methods of photographing his "Nabi" series. Read more

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