Artificial
CELINE LEE
May 6 - 15
Celine Lee’s works often revolve around themes that invoke rudimentary scientific and mathematical concepts to understand contemporaneity. A recurring theme in her body of works is exploring time and space and the transformation into tangible forms of abstract concepts.
Titled “Artificial”, Lee’s solo presentation features textile works produced from generating cracks on a virtual mesh using 3D software. Although the cracks are created randomly, Lee intervenes by modifying the settings and translating the image into cloth through the traditional embroidery method. She reflects on this undertaking and compares its similarities to her context-responsive practice ---where ideas, objects, and forms are constructed and deconstructed but only until they reach the surface point, never completely piercing through.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
CELINE LEE (b. 1993) graduated with honors from The University of Santo Tomas in 2015 with a BFA degree in Painting. Since the beginning of her artistic career, Lee has been producing works with the use of different materials and media; often focusing on process and materiality. Whether in the form of a painting, a sculpture, an embroidery piece, or multimedia work, Lee explores the ability of visual perception and spatial recognition to invoke concepts that extend beyond form. She was one of the artists selected by the Ateneo Art Gallery to exhibit her work for the first Marciano Galang Acquisition Prize and she recently received the Juror’s Choice Award of Merit at the Philippine Art Awards (2020).
Works from Artificial
Celine Lee, artificialcrack1 , Thread on Aida cloth, 20 x 20 in (50.80 x 50.80 cm)
Celine Lee, artificialcrack1 , Thread on Aida cloth, 45 x 70 in (114.30 x 177.80 cm)
Celine Lee, artificialcrack3 , Thread on Aida cloth, 31 x 58 in (78.74 x 147.32 cm)
Celine Lee, artificialcrack4 , Thread on Aida cloth, 82 x 22 in (208.28 x 55.8 cm)