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Chunghie Lee

Lee uses paper that is made of twined straw. The paper is painted with oriental ink; colours and motives are inspired by the ‘Pojagi’, the traditional Korean wrap. With her paperobjects Lee intercedes for the women in her country who survived in a hard existence. The pillows of twined straw that were used for the lying in state of family members that had passed away is a metaphor for the suppressed womens lives in old Korea.

No-name-woman (2003). Material: hand-twined paper, painted with oriental ink.