Aimee Lee
Artist Statement
In her second solo exhibition at KBAC, Aimee Lee continues to explore the branch of American hanji that she has cultivated for 17 years. Known for her hanji ducks and dresses, on display in the gallery, she has returned to the very material that makes Korean paper. Bast fiber from the paper mulberry tree is usually harvested and processed into fine, long-fibered paper. Here, she forgoes the steps of beating the fiber to a pulp to instead spread, lace, and grid the bark into pieces that serve as a printing matrix, book page, or paper inclusion. The results remake her earlier forms of sculpture, garment, and book, and link her labor to people across the world who fashioned bark substrates for thousands of years.
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