Photo by Molly Stinchfield. Courtesy of Art Omi.
이유진은 제주에 거주하며 창작, 번역, 기획, 살림, 농사를 병행하는 시각예술가다. 베를린(2010~2013)과 뉴욕(2013~2017)을 거쳐 2018년 제주 서쪽 시골 마을에 정착했다. 인연이 닿은 옛 농가를 구입해 대안적 국제 아티스트 레지던시인 ‘미술관옆집(Next Door to the Museum)’을 운영하고 있다. 안거리(안채)에는 작가 본인이 머물고 밖거리(바깥채)는 초청 예술가에게 내어주며, 귤 창고는 다용도 프로젝트 공간으로, 우영팟(텃밭)은 재생(regenerative) 정원으로 가꾸어 반려견 및 닭들과 삶을 꾸려간다. 개발주의, 소비주의, 기후위기 시대에 대응해 시골로 이주한 동료 창작자들과 이들이 형성하는 느슨한 연대를 문화학적 관점에서 연구하고 있다. 탈중앙, 탈성장, 돌봄 윤리, 생태주의적 태도를 연구와 실천의 초석으로 삼으며, ‘시골’을 동시대 예술 창작의 중요한 현장으로 바라본다.
Yujin LEE is a visual artist, writer/translator, residency curator, and caretaker of the land based on Jeju Island, South Korea. She studied Fine Arts at Cornell University and earned an MFA in Visual Arts from Columbia University. After living and working in Berlin (2010- 2013) and New York (2013-2017), Lee settled on Jeju Island, where she purchased and renovated a traditional farmhouse. Operating under the name Next Door to the Museum, she hosts an alternative artist residency that brings Korean and international artists to the island to engage with its changing geography, ecology, history, and culture.
Living in an era of overdevelopment, hyper-consumerism, and the climate crisis, Lee explores how diverse artistic practices embedded in the rural across Jeju and the globe can cultivate alternative everyday conditions of creativity and sustainability. Grounded in decentralization, an ethics of care, and ecological responsibility, her work repositions the rural from the periphery to a vital site for trans-corporeal learning, being, and becoming.
Living in an era of overdevelopment, hyper-consumerism, and the climate crisis, Lee explores how diverse artistic practices embedded in the rural across Jeju and the globe can cultivate alternative everyday conditions of creativity and sustainability. Grounded in decentralization, an ethics of care, and ecological responsibility, her work repositions the rural from the periphery to a vital site for trans-corporeal learning, being, and becoming.
yujinlee.art@gmail.com