A Solo Exhibition by Sunjung LEE
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SUN JUNG LEE
B. 1978
Sun Jung Lee is a spatial designer from South Korea and currently serves as a professor at the Techno Design Graduate School of Kookmin University in Seoul. Over the past decade, she has been active as a designer based in Paris and Seoul, where she developed an interest in the sensation of 'defamiliarization' upon returning to once-familiar places after living in different cities.
In 1997, she first encountered manual cameras through university club activities and has since spent over 25 years capturing various photographic works.
The 'Mise en moment' series began as an exploration of the emotion of 'unfamiliarity' towards places in two city spaces that had once felt familiar. These works utilize the literary device of 'defamiliarization,' pioneered by Russian literary critic Viktor Borisovich Shklovsky, to re-experience familiar urban places in Seoul from a 'de-automated' perspective. Lee achieves this by double-exposing disparate spatiotemporal layers on a single analog film, presenting newly combined urban spatial compositions.
Her innovative photographic techniques have evolved through extensive experimentation and have garnered academic recognition, including publications in South Korea's KCI scholarly journals.
She has already attempted 'Mise en moment_Bangkok+Seoul' and is currently planning 'Mise en moment_Jakarta+Seoul'.
