Hee Won Navi Lee, Phone Tapping | 2009 | 11min | DV | France
The film is built up from that single imperceptible instant that signals the shift from day to night; a fleeting moment in which what was is no more; where things might acquire fresh significance. A voiceover guides us through the city while the camera seems to be searching for a specific plot of land—for the coincidence between narrative and image. The topography of the site continues to advance as a second parallel topography emerges (mental this time), until perhaps they meet somewhere here in a new psychic space. Our role is to follow it and select a locus of interpretation: truth, fiction, folktale, memory, deja-vu…
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Hee Won Navi Lee was born in December 1978 in Kyeung Ki-Do, South Korea. She worked as a stylist in Seoul, and has been based in France since 2002. After studying visual communication at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Art de Nancy, Hee Won Navi entered the Fresnoy Studio National des Arts Contemporains. Her artistic research and practice cleverly combine influences from cinema, graphic design, electroacoustic sound art and installation. Her works tends to make use of new media in the digital realm.
