Exhibition view. Second floor

With a career spanning more than three decades, Lee Bul has steadily proved that there is an immeasurable, limitless world inside her awaiting exploration and expression. Trained as a sculptor during the social and political turmoil that permeated South Korea in the 1980s, she quickly emerged as a prominent artist with performative works that addressed then-taboo issues of gender, sexuality, and the body in relation to society. In the 1990s she gained international recognition with a series of provocative works, such as her scandalous installation of fresh fish left to decay and a series of sculptures of dismembered female figures that she named Cyborgs. In 2005, as her interests expanded to architecture and landscape, she began exploring the history of modernity, which she merged with her personal memory and experience. This recent phase of her inquiry is the focus of Utopia Saved.