Lee Bul. The Secret Sharer, 2012.
Major works by Lee Bul are currently on view in APMA, CHAPTER FIVE, a special exhibition drawn from the collection of the Amorepacific Museum of Art (APMA). Spanning from Crush (2000) to The Secret Sharer (2012), accompanied by a selection of preparatory drawings, the presentation offers a concise yet remarkably rich overview of her practice, highlighting a pivotal era from the 2000s to the early 2010s as she rose to international prominence.
Bringing together works by approximately forty artists from Korea and abroad—including Nam June Paik, Kiki Smith, Rose Wylie, Carol Bove, Gala Porras-Kim, and Alvaro Barrington—the exhibition highlights the breadth of artistic approaches shaping contemporary art today.
The Secret Sharer depicts the artist’s companion dog with crystal fragments emerging from its mouth, evoking a private language and time crystallized into form. Also on view are drawings from the conception stages of several key works, offering a multifaceted view of the artist’s process of formation.
