Malaysian visual artist Lee Mok Yee spent two months at Rimbun Dahan from March to April 2022 exploring different materials from Rimbun Dahan and its surroundings, creating structures connecting body and architecture.
About the Artist
Lee Mok Yee is a Malaysia visual artist and drummer born in Klang, a port town near the capital city, Kuala Lumpur, where he currently lives and works. A graduate of Dasein Academy of Art and the Fine Art program at Middlesex University of London, Mok Yee is an artist whose work is primarily concerned with the entanglement between the conceptual and the material.
His work is process-focused and often interrogative of the aspect of ‘materials’ in art-making, choosing to work with ready-made or store-bought objects. Mok Yee re-arranges these materials as an act of interrogation against uniformity; pushing against the boundaries of function in mass-production, and in the re/arranging he questions the idea of moving within structures as an exploration of change and its futilities.
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About the Residency
During his 2-month residency at Rimbun Dahan, Mok Yee explored different materials inspired by Rimbun Dahan and the Malay kampung surroundings. Using scrap wood and PVC carpet that he bought from stores nearby, he attempted to build structures which connected body and architecture. The outcome was a study of materials, pending further exploration in this series of works.
Mok Yee also resumed his study of techniques he had used previously, creating drawings using charcoal on paper, and etchings on kitchenware. For Mok Yee, this practice was a kind of collective process of memory and form inspired by Rimbun Dahan.
