leebul

Plexus, 1997-98.
Leather, feathers, sequins, beads, wires, 95x80x35 cm.

    HUO : "In your early work, like in your performances, you use extensions of the body, like artificial limbs. Are the new cyborg sculptures related to these older works?"

    LB : "In a way, it is an extension of my concerns from my earlier works, which explores the boundaries between the body, objects and culture in a biological sense, so that the materiality of the world was seen as a sort of living organism; and I was trying to decipher its various manifestations and transformations.

  My concern with the body now deals with its extensions and substitutions, or its representations through technological means. And while notions of femininity may appear to be changing with the advent of new ideas and theories arising from those technologies, I still find that certain representations simply reinforce and continue traditional discourses about what constitutes femininity and images of femininity. "

        - from interview with hans-Ulrich Obrist




	Plexus, 1997-98. Leather, feathers, sequins, beads, wires, 95x80x35 cm.
	HUO : "In your early work, like in your performances, you use extensions of the body, like artificial limbs. Are the new cyborg sculptures related to these older works?" LB : "In a way, it is an extension of my concerns from my earlier works, which explores the boundaries between the body, objects and culture in a biological sense, so that the materiality of the world was seen as a sort of living organism; and I was trying to decipher its various manifestations and transformations. My concern with the body now deals with its extensions and substitutions, or its representations through technological means. And while notions of femininity may appear to be changing with the advent of new ideas and theories arising from those technologies, I still find that certain representations simply reinforce and continue traditional discourses about what constitutes femininity and images of femininity. " - from interview with hans-Ulrich Obrist