Nanjoo Lee — Translating Practice
Oil on canvas, Wood panels, Acrylic rods
310 x 180 x 20cm
2023

Translating Practice
Oil on canvas, Wood panels, Acrylic rods
310 x 180 x 20cm
2023

Dear Soap
Single channel video with sound
8:24
2022

A Poem Written by Her Voice
Soap-written Korean letters on red cabbage dyed paper
297 x 420mm
2022

Narcissistic Teleportation
Oil on Canvas
15 x 15cm, 26 canvases
2022

Nanjoo Lee

Nanjoo Lee is a multi-disciplinary artist from Seoul, South Korea. Lee completed a BA Photography at the Chung-Ang University in 2016 and currently lives and works in Glasgow. Recent exhibitions include group shows The Waves From Different Altitudes (Berlin, 2022); Her Voice Before the Blute Spot (Glasgow, 2022); Rinse (Online, 2021); Bodies in Routine (Juárez, 2019); a screening Biscuit Tint 2022 : Artists’ Moving Image Festival (Edinburgh, 2022); and a solo show The World Behind the Glass (Seoul, 2021)

Nanjoo Lee is an artist who infuses objects with metaphorical narratives to explore female subjectivity through autobiographical and collective memory. Through a multidisciplinary approach encompassing painting, moving image, installation, and text, Lee constructs artworks that possess an intimate and contemplative on the female figures and their experience. Lee is particularly interested in the act of translation and its relationship to her art. She views her creative process as a form of language translation, where mundane objects take on symbolic meaning to convey stories about memory, identity, subjectivity, and societal perception.