Dans le cadre du Festival été indien(s) Arles 2022
LEE MOK YEE
Une Esquisse Céleste A sketch, unlike a painting, envelopes a sense of process; a state of in-between. It lies somewhere between definitive and uncertain, between finished and raw; like a journey that is ongoing. For these reasons, a sketch is also a perfect comparison to Mok Yee’s approach in his overall artistic practice. Mok Yee’s past works have seen him interfering materials and objects, separating them from their original functions, wittily combining them together with certain gestures or elements that create a new stimulus in the eyes of the audience. Yet, those new arrangements of ready-mades from spoons in Forgotten History (2012), to his PVC carpet series (2022) - do not seek to exist as an entirely new matter. The materials remain recognisable, and are only midway in their process of becoming. Once again, this shows the “inbetweenness” in Mok Yee’s works, whereby collective memories embedded within these objects meet the artist’s personal curiosities towards certain themes or subjects.
PVC carpet series (2022)
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