Exhibition

Lee Bul

10 Sep 2014 – 9 Nov 2014

Regular hours

Wednesday
11:00 – 17:00
Thursday
11:00 – 17:00
Friday
11:00 – 17:00
Saturday
11:00 – 17:00
Sunday
11:00 – 17:00

Cost of entry

Free

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Birmingham, United Kingdom

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This is the first UK solo exhibition of work by the Korean artist Lee Bul, who is considered as one of the most important artists of her generation. Lee Bul's work is as visually compelling as it is intellectually sharp, preoccupied especially with gender politics and idealism expressed through modernism, science fiction and the development of technology. This judicious survey includes early drawings, photographs and video (documenting performance), more sculptural pieces from the 1990s and ambitious later installations, including a new commission made possible through the Art Fund International scheme. This latter piece, a suspended sculpture dripping with an excess of crystalline shapes and glass beads, references the exponential growth and unsustainability of the modern world, pointing up Lee Bul's interest in the failings of utopian optimism.

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