MOTHER IS PASSING: COME AT ONCE. (photo & video)

Mother is Passing…is made up of 6 video projections and sound tracks, 12 large photo collages, and 10 moving screens that circumnavigate the gallery on a specially built track. In Lee’s installation, the essential elements of cinema: picture, sound and motion, are turned on their head and rearranged. The pictures - giant collages - are still images; the curtains provide the motion for this “motion picture”. The projections lighting the piece, are made up only of shadows, filmed with Lee’s customized camera. The sound track providing a narrative for this dissected piece of expanded cinema is made up of found letters and fictional responses.

Lee has been collecting found photographs for many years. The patterns prevalent in the subject matter suggest that human nature remains largely unchanged. By confronting the privacy and inventing a lineage for the photos and letters, Lee dismantles the small discarded world they've been consigned to and gives them a voice. The title of the exhibition comes from a telegram Lee collected during one of his photo hunts. Concise in its prose, urgent in its delivery, and detached from its origins, the telegram, like the anonymous photographs, teases at a narrative.