I N T E R S T I C E: Jihyun Lee

Exhibition Dates: November 16 - December 18, 2025   

Opening Reception: Sunday November 16, 1-3pm
Artist Talk, TBD

The Ely Center of Contemporary Art ends its tenure at 51 Trumbull Street with a solo exhibition of artist Jihyun Lee.

As illusion deepens within the painting, its flatness becomes even more pronounced. The multidimensional space on the surface unfolds into countless dimensions, revealing a quiet paradox.
Within the delicate gaps between layered spaces, I hope both the viewer’s and my own memories may seep in.
Sometimes, fragments of a fabricated past overlap with the present — This moment for the future memory.
In that overlap, I seek to paint the instant when memory rewrites the surface of time.
-Jihyun Lee

Interstice : The Space Between Time  

An image never completes itself.
It always lingers between two scenes,
between one voice and another,
remaining for a moment in the state of in-between before it fades away.
What I paint is that space of time—
the subtle tremor before memory falls silent,
the air before words take form,
the last thread of light before it disappears.
In that gap, I layer colors, twist forms,
and thinly overlay traces from different times
to create an unseen narrative.
Time does not move in a single direction;
it moves slowly back and forth
between the folded layers.
These paintings are less a record than a trace of lingering—
like the margin of an unfinished page,
stories that unfold and refold,
being born again with each turning.
There, for a brief moment,
I feel I might hold myself,
and the time we have lived.