Ridane Lee, Wreckers, 2026 © Ridane Lee
Faction is presenting 《Proxy is my Lover》, a solo exhibition by Ridane Lee, an artist who has worked across
multimedia practices including video, sculpture, and installation, through
September 1.
Ridane Lee has structurally examined the
fixation of (female) images within digital platforms, exploring ways of
refracting the media technologies that produce “typicality” through various
artistic media.
The artist focuses on how images of women
are mixed with marginal elements such as the nonhuman, queer identities,
subcultures, and specific places within online environments, where they are
often consumed in superficial ways.
By exposing the technical flaws and
fractures of difference that various imaging devices attempt to conceal, Lee
twists and disrupts the voyeuristic gaze embedded within digital platforms.
Ridane Lee, Junky Dates, 2026 © DOOSAN Art Center DOOSAN Gallery. Photo: Euirock Lee.
《Proxy is my Lover》 seeks
to challenge the dominant media systems that produce fixed audiovisual images
and “stereotypes.” The exhibition dismantles the technologies that currently
constitute major media forms, including the structures of digital platforms,
generative AI imagery, and the gaze of the camera.
Through this process, the exhibition seeks
to destabilize the ways we look at objectified subjects and perceive
subjectivity, while revealing how familiar images are manipulated and consumed.
Its central methodology is to generate “strategic errors” or “glitches” through
imperfect recombinations—forms that exceed or fall short of complete
understanding while opening up new hybrid possibilities.
The exhibition features one earlier video
work and one new video work, a series of approximately five sculptures and
installations, and live sessions in which a video is dismantled and
reconfigured differently each week. Beginning on Thursday, August 13, the
opening day of the exhibition, three live sessions will be held in total during
the exhibition period, every Thursday at 7 p.m.
