Genie Lee

Artist statement

The aim of my practice is to question where we have been and to explore issues pertaining to diaspora identity. I believe in the power that visual images can communicate to people beyond the boundaries of time and space.

I imagine myself as an artist providing a voice for people who do not have their own. I want to be a medium for the hidden, shadowed people, those we see every day passing by us in the street, sitting right next to us on the bus, inarticulate and alienated. Study of identity and the third place; building a place beyond time and space, and demolishing the boundaries between, became my integral issues.

My art is the question and the answer, the language with which I can communicate, the only language in which I know how to communicate with others.

Bio

Genie Lee (Hyung Jin Lee) graduated from the Dunedin School of Art with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2006 and continued her Master of Arts in Visual Art at Griffith University with Elizabeth Shaw in 2013. Genie is working as a health practitioner, educator and visual artist.

Genie’s works relate to diaspora and people living between two worlds. She has participated in numerous group and solo exhibitions in South Korea, New Zealand and Australia.

Genie Lee‘s images

Manjang 2013m

nomadnomad 2006

mobilehome 2006

mobilehome 2006

fishbowl 2005