Da-seul Lee
(Korea)
Artist Da-seul Lee finds the gaps that arise from the difference in speed between people and nature and records them through photographs. His project, which started in 2007 in an abandoned coal mine village and moved to Jeju Island in 2012, raises fundamental questions about the landscape that is slowly changing due to capital. throws it at us.
What questions can artists pose to society in familiar but unnatural landscapes? Now artist Lee Da-seul asks us again. Where are we in this huge landscape? Is there a difference between meaningful and meaningless things among the things we see there?
Under the Purple sky
Visual artist Da-seul Lee began farming in 2016 by growing 257 aronia trees. However, even though it hurts the body, repeated weed removal every year raises fundamental questions. Why is he pulling out weeds that, no matter how hard he tries to pull them out, will grow back luxuriantly next year? One day in the winter, Lee Da-seul decides to no longer pull weeds but rather grow them. And I decided not to grow the aronia trees that I needed to grow. 124 aronia trees were cut down to grow weeds. 2025 will mark his 7th year of growing weeds.
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