Gyol LEE

Contact
gyoullee@gmail.com
@gyol.lee

Gyoul LEE(이결 b. 1992, South Korea) lives and works in Paris.

Her work explores the multiple forms and materialities through which the photographic image can exist, as a bridge between memory and the present. For her, the image acts as a tangible imprint of time, preserving the most direct trace of a lived moment. It thus becomes a subjective testimony of significant events, particularly emotional transitions. The relationships she has built, her everyday life, and her experience of living between her country of origin and France shape a singular sensibility that deeply informs her artistic universe.

Education

Master’s Degree in Practices,Histories and Theories of Photography
Université Paris 8
(France)
2024

Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Arts
Université Paris 8
(France)
2021

Bachelor’s Degree in Nutrition and Culinary
Woosong University
(South Korea)
2014

Illustration

Theatre Poster for
The Baghdad Inn
Daejeon, Korea

Group Exhibitions

(Upcoming)
Between Elsewheres
6b, Saint-Denis, France
2026 April

Le temps qu’il faut
Main d’œuvre,
Saint-Ouen, France
2024

Daugthers of Lilith Kim
Cité internationale des arts
Pairs, France
2023

Survivre
Gallery Cachou,
Chacan, France
2019

On the conversation
Korean National University of Arts,
Seoul, Korea
2017

Publications

Fanzine Col-our
Collaboration with Vale.vicio
France
2025

Revue Di #3 Insomnia Contributrion (Text and photograpys)
France
2025

Vivre chez soi en temps de confinement Online collective publication as part of a project by l’Institut de Recherche Leroy Merlin Source sur l’habitat
France
2021

Baguette
Collaboration with Sol LEE
Iowa City,
United States
2017

Internship

Research Photographs Intern
National Archives Center
Pierrefitte-sur-seine
France
2024

Last Updated 24.10.31

Robe flottante, 2022, Vidéo en stop-motion, 14sec.

Berceau,2023, Digital collage,
120 x 140cm.

Collaboration with Lee Sangjong (the artist’s father)

This photographic work, part of series Ma maison mentale, originates from the persistent questions:
“Where is my true home, and what does home truly mean?”

Developed during her Master’s thesis and graduate exhibition, this project expands on a theme that has accompanied the artist for several years. Since moving to France in 2017, she has cultivated an intense, almost obsessive attachment to the notion of home—an attachment shaped by the emotional resonance between her chosen refuge, her studio in Paris, and her childhood home in Korea, tied to family and memory.

For her, photography becomes both a site of preservation and a space where reality and imagination converge. Through a combination of collage, video projection, and installation, she reflects on the temporality of the photographic image while reimagining the idea of home not merely as a physical place but as a form of inner, psychological utopia.

Series Ode à l’oubli,2025, Cyanotype, Crayon,
19,5 x 37 cm.(work in progress)

This series begins with objects left behind by people who have shaped the artist’s life. Some are gifts, others the traces of those she may never meet again. Through cyanotype, Gyoul LEE preserves the memories these objects evoke and the fragments of shared moments and bonds attached to them.

For her, forgetting is not erasure but an intimate, ongoing way of revisiting memory. She repeatedly writes words linked to loss and forgetting in pencil, a contemplative gesture that opens a quiet space where emotions can surface and fade. The pencil marks, softening over time, mirror the way memories gradually dissolve into everyday life.

The title is an homage to Louise Bourgeois.

Untitled,2023, Collage of two Polaroid pritns,
8 x 8cm.

Part of series Ma maison mentale

Au-delà, 2023, Key box, print on tracing paper,
14x5x17,5 cm.

Part of series Ma maison mentale

Exhibition view, research thesis defense, Ma maison mentale : In Search of a Nostalgic Utopia
13 June 2à24, Photo Studio, University Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis.

Painting / Drawing / Print (2014-2025)