Objects in Practice

Objects in Practice presents three new sculptures by Auckland-based artist Yona Lee. Over the past seven years, Lee has refined a vocabulary of stainless steel tubing supporting everyday items. These sculptures, deployed in carefully orchestrated installations, evoke the itinerant and fugitive experiences of contemporary life by collaging fragments of urban and domestic environments. The free-standing works sit low to the ground on coloured yoga mats, drawing viewers to crouch down or sit alongside them. Lee's floor-based sculptures take on a surreal quality, with clock faces standing in for heads and inverted lamp shades forming torsos. The works are sensitive to collective experiences of urban living and the habitual drama of everyday life, inviting consideration of how bodies relate to these sculptures as figures or models for movement.