Influenced by eastern Asian traditional cultures, she began to incorporate a deep interest in combining food, clothing and shelter, which are basic necessities of life, to the arts.
for reflecting the current historical moment of contemporary art by combining various genres, including architecture, technology, virtual reality, fashion, and phenomenology.
"Malleable Bodies: Flusser, Foucault, Plasticity, and the Corset", exhibited at the REDCAT (the Roy and Edna Disney CalArts Theater, Walt Disney Concert Hall (Los Angeles 2018) and the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (Seoul, South Korea) in Seoul in 2015, is a work of installation performance art exploring the nature and structure of the human body as architectural space within the context of technological, aesthetic, and theoretical approaches.
This opening ceremony underscored themes of freedom, social deconstruction, and challenging taboos, which featured prominently in the subsequent talks given by Slavoj Zizek and Alain Badiou.
The performer playing the bride makes her appearance in a high-ceilinged gallery, which signifies the traditional authority of churches, wearing an exaggerated red 50-meter long bridal veil.
The bride and groom enter the space simultaneously and equally, and follow a line of candles prepared with the help of the audience to a small central stage.
Here, the ceremony is performed, integrating Western visual elements of fashion and architecture (seen) and Eastern actions of symbolic meaning (unseen).
The performance, which takes place in the interior of the building, starts with the appearance of a queen, who is wearing items of fashion that visually symbolize her authority, including a ruffed collar and an elaborate gown, moving across the stage trailed by a procession of followers.
The theme of ocular centrism explores the relationship of subject and object, mediated by sight, which acts as a medium of power and restriction.
By spatially aligning this concept with the format of the Panopticon, Lee's artwork symbolically illustrates the desire and awe that we experience for objects we see.
A good example of the relationship and restrictions in the area of fashion is the ruff collar and cuffs that were popular amongst the nobles and royalty of 16th and 17th century Europe to project their status and power.
In architecture, a good example is the Panopticon, created by Jeremy Bentham in the 18th century to efficiently control people through the usage of space, and which visually looks strikingly like a ruff.
By interconnecting the ruff and the Panopticon from a philosophical perspective, Lee has integrated fashion and architecture in order to explore the interrelation between the viewer and the viewed.