Paul Lee - Contemporary Artists

Untitled (Can Sculpture) x3 views

Untitled (Can Sculpture) x3 views The Saatchi Gallery
 

Paul Lee

Untitled (Can Sculpture) x3 views

2007
Soda cans, bath towel, ink, magnifying glass, string, paint, xerox, light bulb

32 x 12 x 19 cm

The sense of haptic memory is overwhelmingly in every aspect of Lee’s sculptures. Here soft drink cans and bath towelling evoke a lingering evidence of intimacy: saliva on lip, damp scent of sweat; while the translucent and swollen light bulbs suggest something that was once ‘turned on’. Awkwardly bound together by the frayed remnants of a shoe string, Lee’s assemblage conveys the fragility and pathos of lost love and its detritus in this precariously balanced composition.
 
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