associated exhibition

Lee Kit

Hold your breath, dance slowly | Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

12 May - 9 October 2016

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Lee Kit Hold your breath, dance slowly
Installation view
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
2016
Photo by Gene Pittman, courtesy Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

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Lee Kit Every color you are
Looped digital video projections (colour, silent), acrylic, emulsion paint, inkjet ink and pencil on paper, storage containers, bowls, vase
2016

Photo by Gene Pittman, courtesy Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

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Lee Kit Hold your breath, dance slowly
Installation view
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
2016

Photo by Gene Pittman, courtesy Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

Lee Kit

Hold your breath, dance slowly | Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

12 May - 9 October 2016

The first US solo museum exhibition of artist Lee Kit (b. 1978) features work from the past five years, including an ambitious 13-channel video installation acquired by the Walker—I can’t help falling in love (2012)—alongside a newly commissioned site-specific installation.

Lee creates poetic object-based installations fashioned from everyday materials and household items such as soap, towels, cardboard boxes, and plastic containers, which he transforms through subtle gestures of painting, drawing, and placement. Originally from Hong Kong and based in Taiwan, Lee frequently imparts political commentary in his work through an embedded use of foreign products and English words that reference the omnipresence of market capitalism surrounding Hong Kong’s history as a global city living under the principle of one country, two systems. The artist received shortlist nomination for the 2013 Hugo Boss Asia Art Award and represented Hong Kong in the 2013 Venice Biennale.

Curator: Misa Jeffereis

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Lee Kit Hold your breath, dance slowly
Installation view
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
2016
Photo by Gene Pittman, courtesy Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

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Lee Kit You (detail)
Projected light, LED light fixture, table, plaster busts, carpet, chair, inkjet transfer on wall
2016

Photo by Gene Pittman, courtesy Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

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Lee Kit Hold your breath, dance slowly
Installation view
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
2016
Photo by Gene Pittman, courtesy Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

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Lee Kit Hold your breath, dance slowly
Installation view
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
2016
Photo by Gene Pittman, courtesy Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

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Lee Kit Hold your breath, dance slowly
Installation view
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
2016
Photo by Gene Pittman, courtesy Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

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Lee Kit Hey (the lasting care)
Looped digital video projection (colour, silent), acrylic, emulsion paint, inkjet ink and pencil on paper, carpet, acrylic on plywood
2016

Photo by Gene Pittman, courtesy Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

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Lee Kit Hold your breath, dance slowly
Installation view
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
2016
Photo by Gene Pittman, courtesy Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

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Lee Kit 10 years after, I grow fatter
Acrylic, emulsion paint, inkjet ink and pencil on paper, fluorescent light fixture, shower stall
2016

Photo by Gene Pittman, courtesy Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

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Lee Kit I can’t help falling in love
13-channel video installation (colour, sound), CRT monitors
2012

Photo by Gene Pittman, courtesy Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

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Lee Kit You
Projected light, LED light fixture, table, plaster busts, carpet, chair, inkjet transfer on wall
2016

Photo by Gene Pittman, courtesy Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

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Lee Kit Hold your breath, dance slowly
Installation view
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
2016
Photo by Gene Pittman, courtesy Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

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Lee Kit Hold your breath, dance slowly
Installation view
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
2016
Photo by Gene Pittman, courtesy Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

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Lee Kit I can’t help falling in love
13-channel video installation (colour, sound), CRT monitors
2012

Photo by Gene Pittman, courtesy Walker Art Center, Minneapolis