Yoonjae Lee is a Korean artist whose practice explores how technology reshapes perception and cognition, grounded in a sustained interest in the relationship between media and sensation. Drawing on philosophy, media theory, and perceptual studies, she examines how we sense, misrecognize, and construct the world through language, the body, and technological apparatuses.
Yoonjae's work begins with her interest in the fundamental question: What are the conditions for sensation and thought? In her artistic research, concepts such as Opacity, Misalignment, and Failure are understood not as obstacles, but as potential sites of relation and emergence. Also, she connects this question to her interest in how time, space, and affect are mediated and reconfigured by technical and linguistic structures.
Her research is informed by phenomenology, posthumanism, and deconstruction—not as abstract citations but as living materials that are embodied and reassembled within her artworks. Ultimately, this approach leads her to create environments where viewers are invited to dwell in moments of questioning, delay, and resonance. For this, Yoonjae treats media as something hybrid and fluid. Different ways of realization, such as writing, video, performance, and digital research, are not separate genres in her practice, but are tightly interwoven and activate.
Yoonjae achieved an MA in Visual Arts from ÉCAL (École cantonale d'art de Lausanne) in Switzerland in 2023, and is working based in Seoul, Korea.
edited in June. 2025
Yoonjae's work begins with her interest in the fundamental question: What are the conditions for sensation and thought? In her artistic research, concepts such as Opacity, Misalignment, and Failure are understood not as obstacles, but as potential sites of relation and emergence. Also, she connects this question to her interest in how time, space, and affect are mediated and reconfigured by technical and linguistic structures.
Her research is informed by phenomenology, posthumanism, and deconstruction—not as abstract citations but as living materials that are embodied and reassembled within her artworks. Ultimately, this approach leads her to create environments where viewers are invited to dwell in moments of questioning, delay, and resonance. For this, Yoonjae treats media as something hybrid and fluid. Different ways of realization, such as writing, video, performance, and digital research, are not separate genres in her practice, but are tightly interwoven and activate.
Yoonjae achieved an MA in Visual Arts from ÉCAL (École cantonale d'art de Lausanne) in Switzerland in 2023, and is working based in Seoul, Korea.
edited in June. 2025