Landscape Remains by Jo-Mei Lee

Landscape Remains by Jo-Mei Lee Date｜2020 / 7 / 29 Wed. - 8 / 1 Sun. Opening｜2020 / 8 / 1 Sun. 15 : 00 Forum｜2020 / 8 / 1 Sun. 15:30 -17 : 30 Guest｜Hsu, Chia-Wei

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【Statement】

Trees wrap time. Several years ago on a winter evening, among the mundane scenery I came across two coconut trees—two royal palm shadows cast by sunlight on the buildings’ walls. The four-story-high tree shadows were displaced as the sunlight moved upon the trees. At times since the trees shook vigorously or due to a piece of cloud passing, a dynamic gray-scale scene appeared on the buildings’ surface. Landscape Remains contains the ambiguity between the coconut trees and the tree shadows . My obsession with the natural forms is just like what Tateishi Tetsuomi once said: “Rather than being emotionally connected to trees, I was more attracted to the inter-lacing of trees and the arrangement of leaf veins. There was a desire inside my mind to attempt to collect those feelings….” Therefore, I kept on drawing and left the strokes of labors. A few weeks ago, those five coconut trees that grew straight up outside the window of my place were cut down due to the typhoon prevention policy in summer. Those trees had been my greetings to the sky every early morning, but they turned out as the waste abandoned on spare land. What remain are the tree shadows, the coconut trees in the botanic garden that suffered during wartime, the wood that lies on the ground, the fallen leaves that sweep the ground in ordinary daily lives, the massive tree bark that hangs off the trunks because of metabolic activities.… With the series of works I want to dive into objects, portray the nature, and evoke the scenery with still lifes. In order to capture the differences, I keep copying the conditions of time fading away.

【About Jo-Mei Lee,】 Born in 1985 in Taipei, Taiwan. Graduated from Master Degree of Department of Fine Art, National Taiwan University of Arts. Lives and works in Taipei. The creation of Lee, Jo-Mei mainly comes from the personal experience of daily experience and its transformation, from the ordinary texture of things and details of the gaze and repeated painting, looking for a touch of the memory landscape. She is good at using different techniques and materials to record and transform, so as to change these accustomed things, slip out of the original order, and reshape the possibility for them to be seen again. Her works have a special poetic quality. In the past, he exhibited in Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Eslite Gallery and Crane Gallery. She has also been invited to France, Japan, Thailand and Australia to participate in joint exhibitions and artist in residence.