Intersect Aspen 2025

LEE & BAE will present a curated booth at Intersect Aspen 2025 under the theme "Beyond the Surface: Layers of Perception". This curatorial theme unfolds through the works of four artists as they navigate the boundaries between digital and analog, tradition and modernity, abstraction and materiality. Each artist offers a unique perspective on how we perceive objects and the world around us—probing beneath surface appearances to explore deeper truths and the process of recognition. In doing so, the exhibition poses a fundamental philosophical question "What does it truly mean to see". While refusing the use of a fixed viewpoint, artist Jinwook Yeom expresses her intention of rejection in her series of forest-painting. In her painting, brush strokes are visualized in monochrome patterns, and the prevalent monochrome images structure the canvas. The gaze moves along the monotone fluently and dynamically. Thus you can read the images of the forest-painting at your will from the sky to the earth or from top to bottom. The tone fading from the mountain top to the ridges receding endlessly is flowing. The artist replaces the nature of painting that is essentially executed on the flat surface with the structure of the forest, and adjusts it in dark tone. Such structure of the canvas as hers tends to surpass landscape painting as a modern and contemporary genre and to be disparate from local landscape painting at home and abroad. For Sangmin Lee, pottery is a space where accumulated past times encounter the present moments and a medium for communing with ancestors across time and space. The artist moves the designed shape that he wants to express to the finished product of a 12mm glass sheet, and then digs out the back of the glass sheet and polishes its surface. The process of carving the surface of the glass with diamond sandpaper is similar to the process of self-discipline. With high-degree of concentration and professionalism, the artist only uses the touch of his hands to estimate the angle of the surface ground by sandpaper and creates an image of all things. Through this process of work, the artist embodies a reflection on the inside of all things, and defines his work as an ‘exploration of the inner world of all things.’ Hyojin Park incorporates symbolic objects into the lower part of her sculptures, drawing from Western mythological deities and the refined cultural artifacts of East Asia, such as traditional ceramics. These objects embody qualities such as dignity, divinity, elegance, and beauty. Through the harmonious combination of these idealized forms—gods representing human perfection and ceramics symbolizing the pinnacle of spiritual culture—Park paradoxically expresses the futility of a lavish life and the burden of upholding its illusions, while still suggesting that life holds inherent value and is worth continuing. Myunggyun You finds the way humans exist and the meaning of life through his work. He recognizes himself as an individual in nature, and focuses only on the echo from pure nature, the source of life.