Kyu Sang Lee

Investec Cape Town Art Fair SOLO Section
15 - 17 February 2019
Cape Town International Convention Centre, Cape Town.

In its seventh edition, Investec Cape Town Art Fair will elevate the fair’s engagement with some of the most exciting artists from around the world, through the second iteration of SOLO. The fair section offers insight into artistic practice through curated solo presentations. In 2019, SOLO’s focus is the relationship between the digital and physical space, placing new and traditional media in dialogue.

By incorporating an emphasis on new media into its major platform, Investec Cape Town Art Fair is confirming its commitment to artists working in ways which resist easy interpretation and categorisation. The section will highlight the experimental practices of a number of emerging and established artists from around the world.

Exploring the effects of the digital world on our lived realities and on artistic practice, 2019’s edition of SOLO will include presentations by Tabita Rezaire, Ibrahim Mahama, Kyu Sang Lee, Sitaara Stodel, and Jake Singer. The section will present a varied selection of artists with different aesthetics and contexts, at differing stages in their careers, each with unique perspectives of the digital space and new media. Each artist has been invited to play within the section’s theme in ways that fit into the trajectory of their practice.

Kyu Sang Lee currently lives and works in Berlin, after graduating from the Michaelis School of Fine Art (Cape Town), where he received a handful of awards including the Cecil Skotnes Award for Most Promising Artist (2016). His photography and video art explores the concepts of time, fate, and death. Lee tests the potential of the captured image to portray the real and the hyperreal, through his constructions of the metaphysical, the spiritual, and the surreal. Lee’s presentation will combine photography, video, and installation. - Artsy