Past Residents
Past Resident2010: GyeongGi Cultural Foundation
Jonggeon Lee
Jonggeon Lee’s sculptures and installations focus on both domestic and public architectural structures, such as staircases or historic monuments that have been displaced from their original contexts. In an effort to capture his experience of cultural displacement, he reproduces components of architectural structures that evoke both the time and space of its origins. He distorts and crops the decorative elements of domestic Colonial houses, reconfigures the scale and material of historic monuments, and combines historic architectural structures with everyday objects. In his work, he transforms architectural structures in order to dislodge them from their initial function of structure. As a result, in each of the pieces, time becomes fixed and isolated from its conventional cycle, creating memories of space.
Jonggeon Lee was born in Seoul, Korea and lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. He received his MFA in Sculpture at Rhode Island School of Design and a BFA at Seoul National University. He has exhibited extensively in both in the United States and Korea. He has recently exhibited his work at Recess in New York, 808 Gallery in Boston, Massachusetts, and Gelman Gallery in Providence, Rhode Island. He has attended several residencies such as the Vermont Studio Center and Chang-Dong National Art Studio and has received a number of grants and awards including the Emerging Artist Fellowship from Socrates Sculpture Park and the Gyeonggi Cultural Foundation Grant.
Events & Exhibitions
Salon: Stefano Cagol (Italy) and Jonggeon Lee (South Korea)
August 24, 2010
Jonggeon Lee, A Stage, 2008, Wood and plaster, 40 × 8 × 40 in. (101.6 × 20.32 × 101.6 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Jonggeon Lee, A Room Of A Room, 2007, Installation view, Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist.
Jonggeon Lee, Always Remembered, 2008, Styrofoam and resin, 15 × 15 × 94 in. (38.1 × 38.1 × 238.76 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Jonggeon Lee, Where I Am, 2006, Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist.
Jonggeon Lee, Bulb, 2009, Mixed media, Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist.
Past Resident2010: Institut Français
Isabelle Cornaro
Isabelle Cornaro was born in France in 1974. She attained degrees in Art History at the École du Louvre, Paris and in Visual Arts at the Fines Arts School of Paris. Her work is transdisciplinary (installations, sculptures and films) and includes the use of cultural objects and images (transposition of classical paintings, casts of kitsch domestic objects), sometimes relating to historical or political contexts. Often Cornaro’s work plays with issues such as systems of representation, commodity fetishism and the creative gesture.
Isabelle Cornaro, Savannah Surrounding Bangui, And The River Utubangui #2, 2003-2007, Jewels on plywood, 161/2 × 231/2 in. (41.91 × 59.69 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Isabelle Cornaro, Songs Of Opposites, 2008, Five 16mm films transferred onto digital support, 7:48 min. Courtesy of the artist and the Parc Culturel de Rentilly, Torcy.
Isabelle Cornaro, Sans Souci #2, 2005-2006, Assembled papers, hair, and pencil, 149/16 × 105/8 in. (36.98 × 26.97 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Isabelle Cornaro, Moulage Sur Le Vif (Vide-Poche) / Casts ('Tidy Trays'), 2009, Pigment print on archival paper, 191/2 × 71 in. (49.53 × 180.34 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Isabelle Cornaro, Landscape With Poussin And Eye Witnesses (I), 2009, Plywood, textile, and various objects, Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist.
Residents from France
Past Resident2010: FONCA - Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes
Tania Candiani
Tania Candiani was born in Mexico City in 1974. Her work is a reflection about contemporary aesthetic patterns. She is interested in producing objects or images which represent the perception of contemporary urban spaces and their rituals. Beyond a specific remark on the body, her approach explores the emotional state of a person or social group and its context and simultaneously proposes research on materials and techniques. At the moment, Candiani is developing a project of urban interventions where textiles, architectural design and the experiences of the people whom she works with become the detonators of the artwork. ‘I believe the circumstance, the process, and the documentation are the most important tools for dialogue.’ Between her most recent projects are Otros paseos, Otras historias, Mexico City, Mexico; Kaunas Grafiti, Textile 09, Lithuania; Refranes, Centro Cultural España, México.
Tania Candiani, Refranes, 2008, Public art project at Centro Cultural España, Mexico City.
Tania Candiani, Kaunas Graffiti, 2009, Installation view. Courtesy of the artist and Textile 09, Kaunas Bienial, Lithuania.
Tania Candiani, Writers Y Escritores, 2009, Installation view. Courtesy of the artist and Biblioteca Vasconcelos, Mexico City.
Tania Candiani, Habita Intevenido, 2008, Installation view. Courtesy of the artist.
Tania Candiani, Battleground, 2009, Live performance and streaming Regina Jose Galindo & Tania Candiani El Paso, Texas & Ciudad Juárez, and Chihuahua.
