ARTIST STATEMENT

Lee Yip (b. 1982, ENGLAND)

is a mixed–race artist (English–Chinese) based in Seoul.  

His work blends photography and spoken word to explore themes of emotion, perception, and connection. Living with CPTSD shapes his experience of the world, sharpening his attention to subtle and often overlooked details.

Drawn into the city after dark, Lee seeks out flowers as living metaphors for emotion. He explores them meditatively, using extreme close-ups with harsh direct flash that dissolve their familiar forms. Edges blur, colours bleed, and shapes distort. This intimacy lets the flowers hover between recognition and abstraction, their presence slipping just beyond certainty.

Rather than providing definitive answers, his work aims to create space for reflection, a pull toward a place where viewers might feel something yet to be discovered and, in turn, see themselves in a new way.