New Currents: Yein Lee
By Effy Cao

Installation view of YEIN LEE’s System of In-between State 1-3, 2024, mixed media, dimensions variable, at the 15th Gwangju Biennale, 2024. Photo by Heoyu. Courtesy the artist.
Yein Lee crafts bodies that are caught in the midst of metamorphosis—part flesh, part machine, poised between becoming and decay. Since relocating from Seoul to Vienna, she has developed a practice in which the natural and the synthetic merge, creating forms that evoke an uncertain future.