Hong Lee Hyunsook (born 1958, Mungyeong, Gyeongsangbuk-do, South Korea; lives in Seoul, South Korea) majored in sculpture in university and is a member of the animal rights seminar group ALiM, which means “animals reflect me.” Through video, installation, performance, and writing, Hong Lee focuses on creating moments when the latent power of the body breaks through an enclosed world. Her work cultivates abstract senses through daily practice and attempts to decenter human existence. Through smell, sound, and vibration, she aims to open up a synesthetic space where we can cross the boundary between what is human and what is nonhuman. Starting with the series Hidden Energy (presented in Il Gallery, 1988, and ARKO Art Center, 1995), she has created installations that compare places and bodies—of people, animals, and objects. Since her solo exhibition at Alternative Space Pool in 2005, she has been creating scenes in which her own body directly confronts a specific place in time, and recording them in video works. Hong Lee has held solo exhibitions at Coreana Museum of Art, Seoul (2022); ARKO Art Center, Seoul (2021); Space Illi, Seoul (2019); and Multipurpose Art Hall EMU, Seoul (2012). She has participated in group exhibitions at Busan Biennale 2024, Zaha Museum (2023), Museum of Contemporary Art Busan (2023), 14th Gwangju Biennale (2023), 3rd Jeju Biennale (2022), and Geumgang Nature Art Biennale 2022.
