□ E-mail: hackkimhack@gmail.com
Biography
Lee Eun-sol creates a virtual character named Kimberly Lee who lives on a digital network, spending her time maintaining and repairing it. Lee Eun-sol contributes to Kimberly's survival in the network by exploring the value of digital objects within the digital value system, while planning and executing tasks on various computing platforms in subsequent residences and living environments. The name Kimberly Lee comes from her experience of not noticing that someone hacked Lee Eun-sol's Instagram in 2017, and changed her name to Kimberly. This signified an intervention in EunSol’s life which highlighted the structural framework of our virtual identities, as the maintainers of such accounts stay busy managing their own image as an avatar, much in the way EunSol manages the life of an avatar itself.
Wait
for the Trust Together, single channel video, 11’4“, 2023, MoCA commissioned
(Sound_Dongyong Kim/
Translate_ Hyejin Ryu/ Proofreading_ Sunho Lee/ KIMMY Token Mitting_ Kimberlyz)
Wait
for the Trust, single channel video, 6’12“, 2022, MoCA commissioned
(VFX_ Jamyu/
IIlustration_ Ryujub/ Sound ‘Optimist’_ Dongyong Kim/ Translate_ Hyejin Ryu/ Proofreading_ Michelle Vu/ Interview_
Daehyun Paik, Hyok Choi, Ryu.Free)
Midnight
Sun Daze, single channel video, 8’31“, 2022, LG Display OLED ART WAVE commissioned
(Graphic Design:
Seunghyun Lee(y!)/ Sound: Dongyong Kim/ Aurora Sous Vide Machine: Kwangjin Electronics/
Translation: Dayun Ryu/ Vocal: Kontrajelly Yujeong Shin)
Kimberly
& Friends, single channel video, 9’30“, 2022, SeMA commissioned
(Song by Aggie
Nam/ Logo monogram & Type design by Seunghyun Lee)
Gather
cephalopod friends, VRChat performance, miner’s gems, 2021
(Performer_
Dongyong Kim x Skov)
Moon
falls, single channel video, 6’, 2021, Typojanchi
commissioned
(Sound by Ashley
J. Quick 'Water fall'/ Logo monogram & Type design by Quicknap.zzz (Daehun
Lee))
Firefly, single
channel video, 8’30“, 2021
(Sound by Ashley
J. Quick (minence Grise, Acid Weather Report)/ Producing by Kim Dong Young
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Popcorn
Prophet_trailer, single channel video, 4’30“, 2020 (Sound byAshley.j.Quick)
Education
M.A. Fine Art, Korea National University of Arts, Seoul, Korea
B.F.A. Video Art, Korea National University of Arts, Seoul, Korea
2021 Kimberly the Optimist, SPACE FOUR ONE THREE, Seoul
2021 Kimberly Extract, SeMA STORAGE, Seoul
Group Exhibitions
2022-2023 Post Modern Child, MCAB, Busan
2022 OLED ART WAVE: NEVER ALONE, Scene, Seoul
2022 Grid Island, Kimberly & Friends, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul
2022 The Taming of The Shrew, Museum Head, Seoul
2021 The Pupil of Nathanael, White Noise, Seoul
2021 TYPOJANCHI 2021: A TURTLE AND A CRANE, Moon Tan Shop, Culture Station Seoul 284, Seoul
2020 Solicarity Spores, ACC (Asia Culture Center), Gwangju
Screenings
2022 𝕮𝖔𝖒𝖕𝖆𝖓𝖎𝖔𝖓𝖘𝖎𝖓 𝖒𝖎𝖘𝖋𝖔𝖗𝖙𝖚𝖓𝖊𝖘, <Firefly>, de:Formal and LA Artcore
Online Exhibitions
2021, 2022 LIMITROPHY @ TheSpace.Gallery, Firefly, Moonfalls
www.foreignobjekt.com
Residencies
2023 Seoul Art Space Geumcheon
2022 SeMA NANJI Residency
2021 GSR (Game-Sandbox-Residency)
Awards & Nominations
2021 SeMA Emerging Artists & Curators 2022
2021 SFAC arts support program A track
