Sol Enae Lee
Sol Enae Lee
Sol Enae Lee
Sol Enae Lee (b. 1982, Seoul, South Korea) is an artist who currently lives and works in Rotterdam, the Netherlands and Seoul, Korea.
She holds a BA (2006) and MFA (2014) in Korean Painting from the Ewha Woman's University, Seoul, and an MA Fine Arts from HKU University of the Arts Utrecht (2020).
Central to Lee's work is the idea of the body in space. She sees the human body as an instrument finely attuned to the spatial rhythms of language, and her performative installations encourage audiences to engage with language not just visually or intellectually but physically. By transforming text into visual and auditory elements like drawing, sound and video with performative events, Lee creates environments where language can be experienced as movement, presence, and sensation.
Sol Enae Lee is an artist whose work bridges language, rhythm, and physical presence through a unique practice she calls spatial poetry. For Lee, words are not merely tools for conveying meaning but raw materials that can be deconstructed, reshaped, and placed within space to reveal new sensory dimensions of language. Working across language translation and media transmediation, she embraces the nuances and imperfections of this process, treating it as a transformative process that both adds to and erodes meaning.
In these spaces, words become dynamic entities, inviting visitors to navigate and inhabit the "in-between" spaces of meaning. Her work is designed to spark a sensory engagement that transcends words, encouraging participants to explore language's materiality with their whole bodies. Each engagement becomes a unique interpretation, expanding the potential of the original text through collective creativity.