Yuri Lee

Yuri Lee is a South Korean artist working across sculpture, text, and non-linear storytelling. Her practice engages technology not only as a tool, but as a philosophical presence—one that moves alongside the human rather than ahead of it. Through speculative explorations of artificial life, Lee reflects on human identity and the shifting contours of cultural evolution.

Her work dwells in the tension between the body’s physical limits and the human impulse to exceed them—emotionally, imaginatively, and existentially. In this space, humanity emerges not as a fixed category but as an unfolding question. Technology, within Lee’s practice, does not seek to resolve this uncertainty; instead, it becomes a means of staying with it, amplifying ambiguity rather than erasing it.

Lee’s robotic and kinetic installations inhabit this fragile threshold between organism and system, intimacy and mechanism. At a time when technology is often framed solely as progress or acceleration, her work proposes a quieter, more radical repositioning—situating technology within vulnerability, co-dependence, and the shared condition of becoming. Here, technology is not an endpoint, but a participant in the ongoing negotiation of life, meaning, and relation.