About
Elizabeth Gabrielle Lee is an artist, researcher and writer. Her practice is guided by the iterations of slow violence and the dynamic between the ‘near’ and ‘elsewhere’. In attempting to disarm instruments of knowledge production, her practice shies away from reduction and completion. Steering away from essentialisms, she is interested in once-forgotten micro and muted narratives. By revisioning fractured traditions, she engages with visual and textual interventions to navigate the nuances of perception and retention.
Lee also runs XING, a research platform centered on the poetics and politics of Southeast and East Asian art practices. 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.
Exhibitions
Forthcoming
2021—
Bite the tongue / XING / An online programme co-curated with Jade Barget
2020—
Photo London 2020 / A.I. Gallery / Were you a flower to tuck away? online viewing room
Power Play 2020 / The Arts House / The unusual powers of disposing installation
GEXTOPHOTO2020 / Phroom Magazine / We've got the sun under our skin in Zapping the Archive moving image
Nameless. echoes, spectres, hisses / XING / An online screening co-curated with Jade Barget
Undescribed #5 / DECK / The unusual powers of disposing installation
2019 —
UNSEEN 2019 / A.I. Gallery / We've got the sun under our skin installation
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
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
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
Teaching
Associate Lecturer in BA Photography and Fashion Photography, University for the Creative Arts, November 2020
Visiting Lecturer in BA and MA Photography and Fashion Photography, University for the Creative Arts, March 2020
Writing
Coda, Nameless. echoes, spectres, hisses, XING, A co-authored essay with Jade Barget, June 2020
When ghosts walked among men, XING, Accompanying text on Russell Morton's Saudade, June 2020
How else to resist?, XING, Accompanying text on Pathompon Mont Tesprateep's Song X, June 2020
Talks
Photo London Lives / Artist talk / XING & Sriwhana Spong
UNSEEN 2019 / Panel discussion / LagosPhoto Presents: The Fluidity of Images: Globalised Aesthetics?
Royal College of Art / Panel discussion / Women Artists and a Brave New Art World
Hackney Showroom / Ladybeard Presents: The Beauty Issue / Panel discussion On Beauty
Interviews & Reviews
Photo London Digital Curated Picks - Week 2, Artsy, October 2020
This online film festival celebrates the work of South East Asian artists, Dazed, July 2020
是谁在为⼥性代⾔, NOWNESS CHINA, March 2020
Photographer Elizabeth Gabrielle Lee radically reframes hegemonic narratives, Freunde von Freunden, January 2020
Weekend Portfolio: Elizabeth Gabrielle Lee, Museé Magazine, March 2020
Triggered!: Elizabeth Gabrielle Lee, Museé Magazine, November 2019
The Ghosts Among Us, Unseen Magazine Issue 7, September 2019
Visual Interventions, Aesthetica, September 2019
A first look at the photographers to know at Unseen Amsterdam, SLEEK, August 2019
Art shows to leave the house for this month, Dazed, July 2019
Soumises, Massages, Objets sexuels, Al Jazeera France, Al Jazeera France, December 2018
Artists including Ruth Ossai and Ibrahim Kamara explore the power of the self, It's Nice That, November 2017
Swipe my race, The Guardian, October 2017
These surreal portraits confront the fetishisation of Asian women, i-D, September 2017
Elizabeth Gabrielle Lee's Xing Undermines The Fetishisation of Asian Women, iGNANT, August 2017
This photo book address the fetishisation of Asian women, Dazed, July 2017
Meet: Elizabeth Gabrielle Lee, Riposte
Repenser la fétichisation de la femme asiatique, Slate France, August 2017
XING subverts the stereotypes of East Asian female sexuality, Crack, May 2017
Education
2017—2018 Distinction MA Photography
University of the Arts London
2014—2017 First Class Honours BA Creative Direction
University of the Arts London