HOT/STUCK/DEAD

provided by MMCA, Commissioned by Seoul Museum of Art

Lee Eunhee, who is taking part in the 2022 MMCA Residency Goyang, collects and combines examples and events of the digital images that are widely reproduced and consumed in the contemporary technological environment, observing the relationship that exists between the digital image and the individual. In particular, she draws an analogy in her explorations between the issues of human societies and the mechanisms of machinery. Her work HOT/STUCK/DEAD (2021) shows the physical origins of the digital screen. Peering inside the machinery of displays, the artist traces the material that serves as a matrix for the typical images of psychedelic screens. Delving into the chemical principle underlying liquid crystals that exist intermediately between liquid and solid phases, this work examines the process of its creation and obsolescence within the economic structure—the standards and finitude that are viewed as (ab)normal.