Devouring Chaos
Yein Lee
At Loggia, Munich
November, 26, 2022 — January 27, 2023
It seems reasonable to suppose that the process of sculpting is an activity that produces order out of chaos. It might also be taking some central unexplained fact as a starting point. Suppose then that this fact is the concept of chaos itself. By convention or convenience, chaos arrives cloaked as disorder. Blame the mischief of everyday language. In contrast, scientific communities study chaos as a type of order, an unstable order in which temporal sequences form complex patterns. Chaos thus forms the condition for structure and coherence, and should not be confused with a proxy for randomness. It should also not be misconstrued as a simple explanation to understand Yein Lee’s exhibition Devouring Chaos.
Muscle memory. (The muscle behind contracts and squeezes forward, while the muscle in front relaxes to allow movement.) If you can reproduce cinematic effects through painting, you can also achieve painterly gestures through the process of sculpting. Watch veins protrude from steel, bloodshot, airbrushed, glistening alloys. Notice how they’re not products of brushstrokes but the aftermath of lightning shocks sent through metal. Instead of joining two pieces of cooperative materials, you’re witnessing a shared sensorium with otherworldly existence, how time has been folded into matter. It knows, what you’ve known all along, but have been misled to disbelieve: There have always been alternatives. (Psst, they exist in real-time). And in this mathematics of montage you’ll find poetry produced from reality:
Look at that!
The last order of chaos
A figure merging into itself
Time arrested and time passing
Why does the flap of a seagull’s wings
Alter the weather forever
They show the bones
They hide their weapons; stand corrected
Numbers found nothing like the old ones
With rounded-off values entered into the system
Neat remains, irreversible, enraged
There lies the portrait of all ruin
And so the death of a butterfly
Travels as the sound of thunder
Life is full of changes
The rest is found in motion
Life is full of changes
You just need to ride with it
— Steph Holl-Trieu
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