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Solo exhibition: Broken heart pieces disco ball
個展：碎心碎片迪斯可球

Presented by: MOU PROJECTS
Curated by Kobe Ko
Exhibition date: March 18 - April 22, 2023MOU PROJECTS 呈獻
高穎琳策展
展覽日期: 、2023年3月 18日 - 4月22日


Florence Yuk-ki Lee's practice emphasizes hand-drawn animation as the primary medium. Through depiction of the cityscape with visual metaphors, revealed is the artist's observation of daily life and ways of living. Exhibited at MOU PROJECTS, "Broken heart piece disco ball" is Lee's first solo exhibition, translating and encapsulating the artist's personal childhood experiences as well as intimate experiences. The showcased works comprise of playground rides, the everyday scenery outside the window of the artist's studio, and unique, special objects recalled from memories—weaving together a melody that lures the viewers to roam and wonder. The exhibition title is an excerpt of a random quote encountered online: "A disco ball is hundreds of pieces of broken glass put together to make a magical ball of light. You aren't broken. You're a disco ball. "merry-go-round like a lullaby (2023) illustrates how the bouncy ball is waiting to be selected, spun down, and leaves the bouncy ball vending machine yet then suddenly turns into a disco ball.

Lee employs the disco ball to express the sweet yet fragile nature of intimate relationships as well as the residual yearning from childhood, enticing the viewers to enter the playground. In you build a home in my mind (2023), the objects, including boats, climbing frames, slides, and basketball courts, are constantly spinning and rotating, sometimes circling around and other times passing by. In their fleetingness, these scenes attempt to evoke collective memories and experiences within the viewer. As the boat navigates between reality and imagination, resembling a journey of constant loss and persistent search, each scene appears slightly different when they reappear, alluding to the repetitiveness and uncertainty of life.


Exhibited here is not only Lee's signature animated films but also the curious combination of the works with park installations. Echoing the readymades, the content of the video works sends out an invitation to enter the playground and bask in the resonating childhood memories. Park Voyage I and II (both 2022), commissioned by M+ Museum, capture the cityscape of Hong Kong and allow the viewers to cruise in a first-person perspective. This solo exhibition traces and reviews the artist's dreams, personal childhood experiences, as well as the manners in which she copes with intimate feelings and human bonds. Whilst thoughts are constantly swirling around, emotions are contemplated upon, and one may eventually fall back into a dream to a lullaby.




李鈺淇的創作以手繪動畫為主要創作媒介，透過描繪城市的風景和物件，流露出藝術家對日常的觀察和生活方式。此次在MOU PROJECTS的展覽「碎心碎片迪斯可球」是李鈺淇的首次個展，回顧藝術家自身的童年回憶及過往經歷。作品以公園的遊樂設施、工作室窗前每天遙望的風景及回憶中別具意義的物件拼湊成帶領觀眾漫遊的旋律。展覽名稱的靈感來自網路上一段隨機的話語：「迪斯可球是由幾百塊玻璃拼貼成的神奇發光球，或許你的心並沒有破碎，它只是變成了一個迪斯可球。」

《merry-go-round like a lullaby》（2023）描繪了彈彈球等待被扭出、滑落、啟程的瞬間，轉眼又從彈彈球變成了迪斯可球，李鈺淇借迪斯可球來表達親密關係既甜蜜卻脆弱，與孩提時代渴望的彈彈球並置，作為邀請觀眾進入大人遊樂場的引子。《you build a home in my mind》（2023）中的小船、兒童爬架、溜滑梯、籃球場等物件不斷旋轉，時而環繞、時而略過，景物在消失後或許會在下一個場景重回觀眾的眼前，在這片轉瞬即逝的景色中，試圖喚起觀眾的共同記憶和經歷。小船航行於現實與想象之間，就像一趟不斷遺失和尋找的旅程，彷似不變的畫面在每次回歸時都略帶不同，暗喻著生命的重複性與不確定性。在此次展覽中，李鈺淇除了展示一貫的動畫作品，更嘗試將動畫結合公園裝置，以現成物呼應影像的內容之外，亦希望邀請觀眾親身走進遊樂場，期望引起童年經驗的共鳴。其中M+博物館的委約作品《Park Voyage I》與《Park Voyage II》（均2022）截取了香港的城市風景，帶領觀眾以第一人稱視角穿梭其中。此次個展是藝術家在童年記憶與夢境之間的回顧，也是她處理情感和紐帶關係（human bonds）的過程，在思緒不斷盤旋的過程中，連情感也被好好消化，就像聽著搖籃曲，終究可以重新入夢。














Work List



you build a home in my mind

2023
Single-channel digital video (color, sound)
4 min 39 sec

<Full version available upon request by email>



merry-go-round like a lullaby

2023
Single-channel digital video (color, sound)
2 min 20 sec

<Full version available upon request by email>



you spin me round like a record

2023
Single-channel digital video (color, sound)
12 sec

<Full version available upon request by email>




Park Voyage I

2022 

1 min 
<Watch video here>





Park Voyage II

2022 

1 min 
<Watch video here>





The Wells of Serenity

2023
Single-channel digital video (color, sound)
0.5 sec (4 frames in loop)

<Full version available upon request by email>



check in; check out

2023
Single-channel digital video (color, sound)
35 sec
<Watch the excerpt here. Full version available upon request>




‘Park Voyage’ series

2022 
Giclée print on Hahnemühle German Etching paper 
35 × 45 cm; 40 × 50 cm (with frame)


‘you build a home in my mind’ series

2023 
Giclée print on Hahnemühle German Etching paper 
35 × 45 cm; 40 × 50 cm (with frame)


‘Peep of Playscape’ series
of

2022
Giclée print on Hahnemühle German Etching paper
35 × 45 cm; 40 × 50 cm (with frame)