Ness Lee: space of feeling

Ness Lee: space of feeling is a solo exhibition featuring works made by the artist during their recent Incite Foundation residency at Centre[3] for Artistic and Social Practice.

“Let’s see. This is a clock that I bring to everywhere. (Ness points to a plastic clock with long bendable limbs sticking out of its face, suction cupped to the window near their desk.) So a lot of these things I actually bring to every studio I have, because for a while I would call it nomadic studio or something, because I just kept moving to different studios for different reasons or whatever. So I just bring familiar things and kind of try to make it home, because a lot of these places, I do have the privilege of taking up that space. It usually feels very foreign to me and very often very, just very lonely, I guess. So these things kind of make me feel a bit more like I have buddies around me. So, let’s see. I usually do bring a lantern of some sort, so I just call this my daikon. (Ness points to a paper white lantern with plastic leaves jutting out of the top.) And I am very into lights and stuff, especially disco lights. So I kind of call this my natural sundial kind of thing. (Ness points to a mirrored sphere and mirrored oblong sitting side-by-side on the windowsill.) I think it changes all the time, but I think maybe around 5:00 or 7:00, usually the sunlight hits it and then the lights will go dancing, and then I’ll know it’s like, Oh my gosh. It’s like 5:00 or 7:00. You have to work. And so, yeah, a lot of these things are toys and junk. In a good way though. And everything has a bit of a small memory or just a reaction or something. I do really love fake food. I think fake food art is ultimate art.”

– Ness Lee in conversation with Lesley Loksi Chan

Read more from the interview here.