Sisan Lee (b. 1995) explores the sculptural possibilities that emerge at the intersection of different times and environments. Drawing on experiences shaped between urban and rural landscapes, as well as the structural thinking developed through spatial design, his work investigates how modernity and primitivism, nature and industry, continuity and change can coexist within a single form. This exploration extends across furniture, objects, and spatial works.


WORKS
Proportions of stone
Neo Primitive
Earth Pieces
    Bone of Industry
    Inlay
    Imprint
    Megalith

PROJECTS
GUCCI ‘Bamboo Encounters’
RIMOWA Event in Seoul
RIMOWA ‘As seen by’
RAINS in Coex
RAINS in Seoungsu
OMAR AFRIDI Showroom in Tokyo
OMAR AFRIDI ‘Primitive Tech’
ARKET in Jamsil
YOUTH Store in Seoungsu
OBSCURA Store in Dosan
Pavilion in Soda Museum

PRESS
INFORMATION
INSTAGRAM

Neo-Primitive_Bench 01

Aluminum Branches
W 200 × D 70 × H 145 (cm)
2024

‹Neo-primitive› series began with the collection of apple tree branches left after pruning in the orchard tended by the artist’s grandmother. Through casting, the collected wood is translated into metal while retaining its original form and surface characteristics. The curves and branching structures formed through growth become components of furniture and sculpture. Organic forms merge with the cold materiality of metal, creating a dual sensibility in which nature and artifice coexist.

This material transformation preserves the forms of the wood while carrying the time and memories accumulated within it into a new material. While trees, as living organisms, undergo change and decay, their forms acquire a different temporality in metal. Through this process, the series explores change and disappearance in nature, and the possibility of forms and memories enduring beyond them.
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