Lili Lee’s work primarily reinterprets the traditions of East Asian painting and spiritual contemplation through a graphic visual language. For the artist, art functions as a practice of meditation and healing, as well as a process of recognizing and expanding inner consciousness and creativity. Drawing inspiration from traditional Korean shamanism, the artist transforms the symbolic iconography and structures found in religious talismans into a visual language, constructing a spiritual world in ink painting that is both personal and universal. The works incorporate traditional Korean materials such as hanji paper and integrate decorative craft elements discovered in shamanic ritual objects. These materials and techniques go beyond mere cultural reference, functioning instead as part of the artist’s own distinctive visual system and as elements within a broader spiritual narrative. In recent works, the artist has begun to focus on the invisible energies generated by human activity, reconstructing them in the form of “altars” and thereby expanding both the spatial and conceptual dimensions of the practice.
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