{"id":55,"date":"2025-12-31T17:53:39","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T17:53:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hleejjly.hostingkr.com\/?p=55"},"modified":"2026-01-20T03:08:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T03:08:16","slug":"introduction-for-look","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/namsubin.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/31\/introduction-for-look\/","title":{"rendered":"Introduction for LOOK, I\u2019M A FOUNTAIN OF FILTH RAVING MAD WITH LOVE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I edited and wrote the introduction for LOOK, I’M A FOUNTAIN OF FILTHRAVING MAD WITH LOVE<\/em> (2025) by Kim Eon Hee<\/a> and Lee Mire<\/a>. The full text is below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This book is a compilation of the poetry of poet Kim Eon Hee (b.1953), translated into English by Soje, and the visual works of artist Lee Mire (b.1988), whose art incorporates Kim\u2019s poetic texts. Both Kim and Lee investigate the human body as a site of primal experience and materiality\u2014the human flesh as an eating, copulating, and excreting being with holes\u2014and its visceral affects. What spills over from their shared exploration is a confrontation, and possible pursuit, of the abject, or even the Real \u201cbeyond all meaning, intention, concepts, interpretations, evaluations, categorization, judgments, and description.\u201d1<\/a><\/sup> By juxtaposing Kim\u2019s poems with two of Lee Mire\u2019s series which directly draws upon Kim\u2019s poetry, the book provides a striking intersection of text and image, offering insights into the artists\u2019 collective exploration of the body\u2019s intense physicality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Installation view of Lee Mire, Look, I’m a fountain of filth raving mad with love<\/em>, 2022. Image courtesy of artist and ZOLLAMTMMK, MMK Frankfurt. Photo: Avel Schneider.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The first chapter, \u201cLook, I\u2019m a filth of raving mad with love,\u201d features a series of panel works from Lee Mire\u2019s solo show of the same title at ZOLLAMT Museum fu\u0308r Moderne Kunst (MMK) (Frankfurt, Germany), 2022<\/a>. In this exhibition, Lee transcribed Kim\u2019s text with cement on brown wooden panels, on which sculptures resembling oral cavities were suspended, filling an entire wall with screams of poetry. The second chapter, \u201cPrayers,\u201d presents a smaller series with the same title inspired by Tibetan Buddhist mandala with veils, exhibited in the 2024 group show \u201cterritory\u201d at Spru\u0308th Magers (Berlin, Germany)<\/a>. In these pieces, Kim\u2019s poems are embedded with melted lead and emerge into view through holes in skin-like fabrics. The complete text of each poem, featured in Lee\u2019s works is included in both chapters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Lee Mire, Prayers: Poetry, <\/em>2024, lead on burlap, resin, concrete, metal frame, 60 \u00d7 51 \u00d7 5 cm (framed). Photo: Timo Ohler. Courtesy the artist and Spr\u00fcth Magers, Berlin.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Two essays precede the chapters featuring the works and poems by Lee Mire and Kim Eon Hee to guide us. Lee Mire herself reflects on the making of the two series, discussing the profound impact and resonance Kim\u2019s poetry has had in her work, which she describes as \u201cboth an ecstatic and a painful experience.\u201d Johanna Hedva (b.1984)<\/a>, an American artist and writer, describes their connection to Kim Eon Hee\u2019s poetry and Lee Mire\u2019s art, both of which center on a repulsive body marked by \u201cthe leaks, stinks, telos toward decay.\u201d With these voices, this book stands as a testament to a uniquely poetic companionship between visual art and poetry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. Kim Eon Hee, \u201cA Few Thoughts for Carriers,\u201d in Lee Mire, Carriers<\/em> (Art Sonje Center, 2020), p. 70. \u21a9\ufe0e<\/a><\/li><\/ol>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    I edited and wrote the introduction for LOOK, I’M A FOUNTAIN OF FILTHRAVING MAD WITH LOVE (2025) by Kim Eon Hee and Lee Mire. The full text is below. This book is a compilation of the poetry of poet Kim Eon Hee (b.1953), translated into English by Soje, and the visual works of artist Lee […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"[{\"content\":\"Kim Eon Hee, \u201cA Few Thoughts for Carriers,\u201d in Lee Mire, Carriers<\/em> (Art Sonje Center, 2020), p. 70.\",\"id\":\"55c82e0a-2467-4d8e-b2a8-e8e8763113ca\"}]"},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-criticism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/namsubin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/namsubin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/namsubin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/namsubin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/namsubin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/namsubin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79,"href":"https:\/\/namsubin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions\/79"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/namsubin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/namsubin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/namsubin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}