“Line on display”
Yona Lee
18 Mar → 16 Apr 2016

Using the architectural features of the Front Space gallery as a guide, Yona Lee’s Line on display responds to the spatial dynamics of this particular gallery.

Often seen as a transient space, Lee connects this experience with that of the psychological journey one takes when walking through a shopping mall or showroom. Utilizing merchandising display languages such as racks, hooks and prongs, Lee presents a number of manipulated slatwalls and anthropomorphic line sculptures – with found objects attached – she highlights our complex relationship with desire within the confines of commodity culture.

Using steel structures that block or shift the viewer’s movements, Lee heightens the viewer’s bodily awareness in relationship to their surrounds.