Jaemo Lee

HEAD - Genève
IG @leejaaemo

Born in South Korea in 1995, Jaemo Lee graduated from the MAIA programme at HEAD-Genève and from the École Supérieure d’Art et Design de Saint-Étienne. He designs narrative experiences through objects, spaces, and installations. His approach questions contemporary environmental issues and societal challenges, whilst drawing value from the resources available within the territories engaged by his work.

La chambre des oiseaux
This is neither a wall nor a sky.
This is neither a skin nor a wing.
This is neither an object nor a presence.
This is neither inside nor outside.

The Bird Room recalls the beings that once inhabited this place before the building was erected on the hillside, and captures the fleeting moment of an encounter with birds through an open window. The interior is no longer exclusively human territory. Beneath the soft light of the Mediterranean climate, the boundary between inside and outside softens, allowing presences to cross paths and slip through.

Rooted in the legacy of the villa Noailles, this world resonates with the Surrealist imaginary. The Surrealists, closely connected to the Noailles couple, explored the overlap of the real and the imaginary by blurring the boundaries between architecture, art and everyday life. A symbolic figure situated between sky and earth, reality and dream, the bird is frequently invoked at the heart of these experiments.

This piece weaves together the context of the villa Noailles and the memory of the place through the presence of the bird. It opens up a space for the imagination alongside another inhabitant of the hillside, and proposes a way of experiencing cohabitation.

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PIERRE FREY
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MINA FRISTOT
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