Exposition GORU GORU de Seulgi Lee

‘a bit of everything, harmoniously’

30pm) — GORU GORU is Seulgi Lee's first monographic exhibition, bringing together for the first time in a French institution a vast body of works the artist has produced over the past twenty-five years.

The title GORU GORU, which means ‘a bit of everything’ in Korean, refers to the notion of a plural and balanced whole, to an exhibition conceived as a meal in which one eats a little of everything: flavours, textures, raw, cooked, fermented, sweet, salty, animal, vegetable, cold, hot.

Its sound also evokes the G, the R and the O of the Garonne and its swirling presence at the foot of the Frac. This exhibition offers a deep dive into the heart of the artist's practice.

Seulgi Lee's artistic practice is immediately recognisable through her use of colour, gestures and simple forms, sometimes performative, which make objects ‘dance’ or ‘speak’.

Seulgi Lee indeed explores the material language of objects, which often bear witness to vernacular practices and which are resolutely contemporary in their translation. For several years Seulgi Lee has worked in close collaboration with artisans.

For example, it is in collaboration with a master nubi quilt artisan from Tongyeong, a port in South Korea where this traditional quilting technique has been developed for hundreds of years, that Seulgi Lee launched her BLANKET PROJECT U in 2014, which consists of making nubi quilted blankets visually translating Korean proverbs.

On the occasion of this exhibition, presented across the Frac's 1,200 m² floor, Elfi Turpin and Seulgi Lee invited Korean artisans who practise dancheong, a traditional freehand decorative painting technique generally used on sacred wooden structures such as temples and palaces.

They will intervene on the Frac's walls a