About
Elizabeth Gabrielle Lee is a Singaporean-born, London-based artist and researcher. Her work navigates the nuances and intricacies that arise out of history and memory. Meditating on fractured and lost traditions, themes of displacement and nostalgia weave in and out of her storytelling. Through visual and textual interventions, she attempts to undo constructs of knowledge production and retention. By negotiating the dynamic of the ‘near’ and ‘elsewhere’, her practice works to remap a singular history, steering narratives toward alternate and fluid territories.
Lee also runs XING, a research platform centered on the poetics and politics of Southeast and East Asian art discourse. Assuming form of a shapeshifter, it morphs between localities and temporalities; with(in)flux. A domain of not-yet possibilities, the platform attempts to dismantle matrices concerned with the region from non-dominant perspectives.
Education
2017—2018 First Class Honours MA Photography
University of the Arts London
2014—2017 First Class Honours BA Creative Direction
University of the Arts London
Work
Forthcoming
DECK / Undescribed #5 / The unusual powers of disposing installation
Photo London 2020 / A.I. Gallery / Were you a flower to tuck away?
2019 —
UNSEEN 2019 / A.I. Gallery / We've got the sun under our skin installation
UNSEEN 2019 / Panel discussion / LagosPhoto Presents: The Fluidity of Images: Globalised Aesthetics?
Photo London 2019 / A.I. Gallery / Vessels & These hands shall carry you home installation
Art Hub / Uprooted Group Show / Were you a flower to tuck away? installation
The Koppel Project Central / Xhibit 2019 / Were you a flower to tuck away? installation
Royal College of Art / Panel discussion / Women Artists and a Brave New Art World
59 Hackney Road / Deviations Group Show / The unusual powers of disposing
2018 —
London College of Communication / UMBRA Group Show / Were you a flower to tuck away? installation
Enterprise House / ; Group Show / These hands shall carry you home installation
Hackney Showroom / Ladybeard Presents: The Beauty Issue / Panel discussion On Beauty
Guest Projects / Ladybeard Presents: Hysteria / Ultraviole(t)nce moving image installation, a XING takeover
DIY Space For London / AWOMENfest / Prints display
2017 —
V&A Museum / Friday Late Sino Flux / Jin site specific installation
Hoxton Arches / Am I Making Sense Group Show / My voice will not be silent nor will it just be heard–it will be seen, lived and experienced site specific installation
21Moonstone / XING Singapore Book Launch / Prints & moving image installation
Enterprise House / XING London Book Launch / Prints & moving image installation
Old Spitalfields Market / LCFBA17 External Show / XING Book Display
LCF Lime Grove / LCFBA17 Internal Show / XING Book Display
Tate Modern / Offprint London 2017 / XING Book Display represented by STAPLE Magazine
Rich Mix / DIY Cultures 2017 / XING Book Display represented by STAPLE Magazine
Selected Press
iGNANT, UNSEEN Platform, Aesthetica, It's Nice That, Dazed, i-D, The Guardian, Al Jazeera France, Huffington Post, Riposte, Slate France, Crack