Gamer, pigment print

JeeYoung Lee is a Korean artist who makes a practice out of painting with photography. Rather than taking photographs of existing scenes, Lee dreams up bizarre, imaginative, images and sets which she then builds and photographs. The result is like getting to look inside the artist’s dreams.

Resurrection, pigment print

I love how Lee places herself in all of these photographs, essentially making them self-portraits within her own dreams or fragmented, fabricated memories. There is something very theatrical about this process, not only in the dedication that Lee shows in several weeks to construct the set for a single photograph. In photographing herself in the spaces she solidifies a personal connection and enacts the remembering or dreaming process, only inviting viewers in to share it.

Lee has received many awards in Korea and internationally, and her works became something of an internet sensation after images of her first solo show outside of Korea made it onto Reddit.  

My Chemical Romance, pigment print