Upcoming
6.6 – 5.7 2025
Jungjin Lee:Unseen
45 Maddox Street
Jungjin Lee:Unseen
06.06 – 05.07.2025
Upcoming
Hours
Monday to Friday, 11:00am – 5:30pm
Saturday, 10:00am – 1:00pm
Gallery
45 Maddox Street
London
W1S 2PE
Jungjin Lee, 67, from the series ‘Unseen’, 2024
Jungjin Lee, 76, from the series ‘Unseen’, 2024
Huxley-Parlour are delighted to announce Unseen, the first UK exhibition of South Korean artist Jungjin Lee. The exhibition will presents ten large-scale photographs from Lee’s latest body of work, made in Iceland in 2024. Moving freely between calligraphic delicacy and stark geometry, Lee’s photography bears witness to her own emotional responses to and internal experience of a landscape. In many works the artist eschews direct representation entirely, and the landscape dissolves into non-representational forms and abstracted surfaces.
Jungjin Lee, 76, from the series ‘Unseen’, 2024
In this latest body of work the Icelandic landscape, spartan, vast, and primal, allowed the artist to further simplify and reduce her compositions. Describing Iceland as ‘a place that demands presence and attention’, Lee uses the unique topographical and elemental condition of the country’s landscape to trace the boundaries between the visible and the invisible. The resulting photographs are subtle, meditative and emotive.
B. SOUTH KOREA1961
Biography
Jungjin Lee’s work forms meditative depictions of her contact with the elemental world, capturing spaces of slow, quiet reflection. Foregoing darkroom editing while creating prints on traditional mulberry paper hand painted with emulsion, Lee transforms image into object with the physicality of her process—each a palpable testament to endurance, patience, and rumination.
Jungjin Lee received her BA in Ceramics From Hong lk University before graduating with a Masters in Photography from New York University. Her work has been exhibited internationally at Goeun Museum of Photography (Korea, 2023), National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (Korea, 2018), Musee Des Beaux-Art (Switzerland, 2017), Fotomuseum Winterthur (Switzerland, 2016), Andrea Robbi Museum (Switzerland, 2013), Santa Fe Art Institute (USA, 2008), The Museum of Photography (Korea, 2002), among others. Her works are held in the permanent collections of many institutions including the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), National Gallery of Art (Washington D.C.), Whitney Museum of American Art (New York), Los Angeles County Museum of Art (California), Houston Museum of Art (Texas), and Seoul Museum of Art (Korea). She has received the 2013 Dong Gang Photography Award (Korea), the 2011 Anonymous Was A Woman Awards (New York, USA), and the 1990 Photography Award from the Camera Club of New York. Jungjin Lee currently lives and works in New York.